Question 6

[Guest]

There might be one blockade still open, I suppose. They'd be in a state of red alert due to the aforementioned invasion of katana-wielding panda bears.

Do you care where this blockade is?

[Aonar he/him]

... So, erm, sorry to interrupt, but how does one go about joining this thing? (Aside from posting and asking to join and all.)  This RP looks really awesome. 

 

I have a couple ideas for Epics, and, (thanks to the very helpful summary posts a little ways back) pretty well understand what's going on in the Dalles. 

 

However, I have two(-ish) problems. I'm having difficulty thinking up a suitably pretentious and self-important name, and I'm wondering whether or not I should add more limitations on the powers of the Epic I'm thinking of running. At the moment, he's not super-powerful (it's not like he can level city block or anything) he can just do a crap ton of stuff, with clever applications of the one ability. (I'm not sure exactly where to introduce him into the thread either, as depending on who he met and when he met them, he could fall on pretty well any side. This can come later, however.)

 

Anyways onto a (relatively) brief description:

Name: ?? (I'm kinda leaning towards Frostfire, or something similar, because it reflects the main use of his power.)

 

Primary Power:
Energy Manipulation: Can transfer energy from himself, or any object in direct physical contact with him, to anything within sight. Is allowed to choose the vectors of the energy he's applying (in the case it is something that can be described in vectors). 

 

Secondary Power:
Life Sense: More energy-sense than anything, but he has the ability to gauge the rough location of objects around him. (The greater net energy the object has, the clearer it is, and the further away he can sense it from. Cool/room temp. stone is a dim blur. Quickly moving objects, open flames, people etc., are fairly definite, bright shapes. Epics (High Epics in particular) tend to be like small suns.) The more he concentrates on it, the better he can see like this.

 

Limitations: Can draw energy only from things he is touching. He can also only transfer energy to things roughly within his line of sight, and to only one target at a time. The more distant an object is, the less effective his power becomes. Can only hold energy for a very short amount of time. Whenever possible, he needs to be rid of whatever he’s absorbed very quickly; the more energy he has, the quicker he needs to be rid of it before losing control and sustaining injury. (For example, when being shot at, he has very little time to stop and choose targets. If he's prepared, he usually won't suffer injury though.)

 

Has no prime invincibility. If you manage to catch him unawares, or somehow dump energy into him faster than he can transfer it (by no means impossible, a small group of people with automatic firearms could probably do it, if they managed to make him stay still long enough), he will die like anyone else.  

 

 

What do you guys think?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

... So, erm, sorry to interrupt, but how does one go about joining this thing? (Aside from posting and asking to join and all.)  This RP looks really awesome. 

 

I have a couple ideas for Epics, and, (thanks to the very helpful summary posts a little ways back) pretty well understand what's going on in the Dalles. 

 

However, I have two(-ish) problems. I'm having difficulty thinking up a suitably pretentious and self-important name, and I'm wondering whether or not I should add more limitations on the powers of the Epic I'm thinking of running. At the moment, he's not super-powerful (it's not like he can level city block or anything) he can just do a crap ton of stuff, with clever applications of the one ability. (I'm not sure exactly where to introduce him into the thread either, as depending on who he met and when he met them, he could fall on pretty well any side. This can come later, however.)

 

Anyways onto a (relatively) brief description:

Name: ?? (I'm kinda leaning towards Frostfire, or something similar, because it reflects the main use of his power.)

 

Primary Power:

Energy Manipulation: Can transfer energy from himself, or any object in direct physical contact with him, to anything within sight. Is allowed to choose the vectors of the energy he's applying (in the case it is something that can be described in vectors). 

 

Secondary Power:

Life Sense: More energy-sense than anything, but he has the ability to gauge the rough location of objects around him. (The greater net energy the object has, the clearer it is, and the further away he can sense it from. Cool/room temp. stone is a dim blur. Quickly moving objects, open flames, people etc., are fairly definite, bright shapes. Epics (High Epics in particular) tend to be like small suns.) The more he concentrates on it, the better he can see like this.

 

Limitations: Can draw energy only from things he is touching. He can also only transfer energy to things roughly within his line of sight, and to only one target at a time. The more distant an object is, the less effective his power becomes. Can only hold energy for a very short amount of time. Whenever possible, he needs to be rid of whatever he’s absorbed very quickly; the more energy he has, the quicker he needs to be rid of it before losing control and sustaining injury. (For example, when being shot at, he has very little time to stop and choose targets. If he's prepared, he usually won't suffer injury though.)

 

Has no prime invincibility. If you manage to catch him unawares, or somehow dump energy into him faster than he can transfer it (by no means impossible, a small group of people with automatic firearms could probably do it, if they managed to make him stay still long enough), he will die like anyone else.  

 

 

What do you guys think?

 

There really isn't a "process" for joining—except for asking politely, which you did. So welcome. 

 

I'm the wrong person to ask for names, but I'll comment on his powers in more detail later. Personally, I like him. 

[Kobold King he/him]

... So, erm, sorry to interrupt, but how does one go about joining this thing? (Aside from posting and asking to join and all.)  This RP looks really awesome. 

 

I have a couple ideas for Epics, and, (thanks to the very helpful summary posts a little ways back) pretty well understand what's going on in the Dalles. 

 

However, I have two(-ish) problems. I'm having difficulty thinking up a suitably pretentious and self-important name, and I'm wondering whether or not I should add more limitations on the powers of the Epic I'm thinking of running. At the moment, he's not super-powerful (it's not like he can level city block or anything) he can just do a crap ton of stuff, with clever applications of the one ability. (I'm not sure exactly where to introduce him into the thread either, as depending on who he met and when he met them, he could fall on pretty well any side. This can come later, however.)

 

Anyways onto a (relatively) brief description:

Name: ?? (I'm kinda leaning towards Frostfire, or something similar, because it reflects the main use of his power.)

 

Primary Power:

Energy Manipulation: Can transfer energy from himself, or any object in direct physical contact with him, to anything within sight. Is allowed to choose the vectors of the energy he's applying (in the case it is something that can be described in vectors). 

 

Secondary Power:

Life Sense: More energy-sense than anything, but he has the ability to gauge the rough location of objects around him. (The greater net energy the object has, the clearer it is, and the further away he can sense it from. Cool/room temp. stone is a dim blur. Quickly moving objects, open flames, people etc., are fairly definite, bright shapes. Epics (High Epics in particular) tend to be like small suns.) The more he concentrates on it, the better he can see like this.

 

Limitations: Can draw energy only from things he is touching. He can also only transfer energy to things roughly within his line of sight, and to only one target at a time. The more distant an object is, the less effective his power becomes. Can only hold energy for a very short amount of time. Whenever possible, he needs to be rid of whatever he’s absorbed very quickly; the more energy he has, the quicker he needs to be rid of it before losing control and sustaining injury. (For example, when being shot at, he has very little time to stop and choose targets. If he's prepared, he usually won't suffer injury though.)

 

Has no prime invincibility. If you manage to catch him unawares, or somehow dump energy into him faster than he can transfer it (by no means impossible, a small group of people with automatic firearms could probably do it, if they managed to make him stay still long enough), he will die like anyone else.  

 

 

What do you guys think?

 

Welcome to the RP! We're quite excited to have you.

 

I love the name Frostfire. One thing I'd like clarification on is how his energy transference manifests. Are we talking the transfer of kinetic energy from one object to another, like in momentum Epics, or can he project actual beams of raw energy like Steelheart?

[Aonar he/him]

Thanks. I might well end up going with Frostfire.

 

It depends a lot on what exactly he's transferring. The way it's working in my head right now, it's not instantaneous transfer, but it's not exactly easy to see, either. Kinetic energy would appear similar to the momentum twins, powers (ie, as not much of anything, until it struck it's target). Frostfire would be able to trace it's path through the air due to the nature of his gifts, but most people wouldn't. Light/heat/electricity would be a little more visible. Probably just as a warping in the air, (like a heat mirage) as some of the energy is lost over the intervening distance.

 

Think of it more as Steelheart's energy beams I guess, just not quite as flashy.

[Voidus]

My main concern would be to do with heat transfer, heat energy is just so abundant on earth as compared to the rest of the universe. Even an object at room temperature, if completely drained of heat would give ~300 degrees to play with. Considering that few Epics in the Dalles have a PI (Actually I don't know if any have a proper PI) he'd be a bit OP.

[Aonar he/him]

There's a limit on his heat transfer. It gets exponentially harder to remove energy from things as they get colder. For example, at room temperature, for an object on the upper end of his range for size* (something like a cubic meter) Frostfire usually only gains enough heat to light a few things on fire. I wouldn't even know where to start with exact calculations, but it'll just say that past about -20/30* C, it gets impractically difficult to lower the temperature of the object in question, even though he could theoretically make it much colder.

 

*(Seeing how the Earth is technically an object, and contains an incredible amount of heat, I needed to limit this somehow. If he attempts to drain energy from an object larger than a cubic meter, heat is only actually drained from the immediate area he is touching, with a range of about a cubic meter.)

Edited January 26, 2015 by Aonar Faileas

[Lightsworn Panda he/him]

 

I´m torn between pointing out that clearing the debris out of the tunnels and stabilizing them, so the entire army can savely pass through would take weeks if not months of work and that digging close enough to the surface to attack guards would have buildings collapse on them and just not carring about details like that anymore.

 

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The pandas only have wooden/bamboo arrows, so unless the guards are not wearing any armour, which they should, I don´t think they would get the necessary piercing strenght. They were only really useful to set stuff on fire.

 

one guard took an arrow to the throat and collapsed, the other taking several to the chest.

 

 

An ordinary mole can tunnel about 12-15 feet in an hour. Assuming the said mole digs 24 hours a day (or works in shifts, as is the case here), it could cover around a maximum of 110 metres in a day (I'm using the non-American spelling, for those of you who are abut to point out that supposed mistake). Now, this is an ordinary mole. What if the said mole was enhanced and enlarged? The digging rate could be at least doubled, if not tripled. As long as the Panda Army did not march very far from The Dalles, the moles could dig the the required tunnels within a week. The debris could also simply be carted away by pandas (Moles don't leave much in term of debris, anyway. Some moles compress the dirt against the walls) and the walls could also be strengthened by said pandas.

 

It's amazing how much damage fire-hardened or stone tipped arrows can do. Especially if fired by enhanced pandas that can put hundreds of pounds of pressure behind an arrow with a bow.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Two things, one of them a Firefight spoiler.

My brother is convinced Conflux's Rending was blowing up a microwave.

My sister isn't confident in drawing faces just yet, but I told her she needs to gain confidence so she can draw Conflux with the pure energy of an enormous sun exploding behind him...as he tries to feed a kitten a frozen burrito.

What say you all? Should she attempt this drawing?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Aonar! Glad to have you here. As far as I can see your epic makes sense, though there is the PI problem and the introduction to the story problem.

 

I've been thinking, What if we started the Astoria thread sooner rather than later? The regular plans happen, but the epics under Lucienta's command hold off contacting her, trying to do everything themselves, and only call Lucienta after Portland gets destroyed?

 

Also, are we going to have only one planning thread for the whole RP, or are we going to eventually make a Question: Portland and Question: Astoria threads? This thread already expands at an Exponential rate.

[Kobold King he/him]

Two things, one of them a Firefight spoiler.

My brother is convinced Conflux's Rending was blowing up a microwave.

My sister isn't confident in drawing faces just yet, but I told her she needs to gain confidence so she can draw Conflux with the pure energy of an enormous sun exploding behind him...as he tries to feed a kitten a frozen burrito.

What say you all? Should she attempt this drawing?

 

I believe the world would be a much more hilarious place with that drawing in it.

[Voidus]

Aonar! Glad to have you here. As far as I can see your epic makes sense, though there is the PI problem and the introduction to the story problem.

 

I've been thinking, What if we started the Astoria thread sooner rather than later? The regular plans happen, but the epics under Lucienta's command hold off contacting her, trying to do everything themselves, and only call Lucienta after Portland gets destroyed?

 

Also, are we going to have only one planning thread for the whole RP, or are we going to eventually make a Question: Portland and Question: Astoria threads? This thread already expands at an Exponential rate.

I don't know if I could manage keeping up with two Questions threads.

It might be good to start Astoria soon though I agree.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Well here's how I visualize it. We keep this Main Question thread for cross overs and the random talk we always have, but also make dedicated planning threads, to make it easier to figure out what is going on.

[mail-mi he/him]

Well here's how I visualize it. We keep this Main Question thread for cross overs and the random talk we always have, but also make dedicated planning threads, to make it easier to figure out what is going on.

 

I think those dedicated planning threads would have straight dedicated planning for about a half a page before going back to jokes and ponies

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Yeah, but it's the Effort that counts.

[Voidus]

And Crackships, you can't forget the crackships.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Yeah….even if I put "Planning ONLY. NO JOKES/SHIPPING/PONIES/RANDOM CHITCHAT, GUYS" at the top of each thread, there would still be a pony comic by post 15.  

 

That said, Joe does have a point. It's difficult enough to sift through all the posts in one of these threads when it's just Portland and The Dalles; if we added Astoria and even just one of the other areas we'd mentioned, the Question threads would fill up very quickly. I'm not sure what the best solution is—multiple Questions, keep the Questions for all-purpose pony comics and crack shipping and add a few planning threads, something else entirely—but I do think we need a solution. 

 

Thoughts? 

[Kobold King he/him]

Yeah….even if I put "Planning ONLY. NO JOKES/SHIPPING/PONIES/RANDOM CHITCHAT, GUYS" at the top of each thread, there would still be a pony comic by post 15.

 

That said, Joe does have a point. It's difficult enough to sift through all the posts in one of these threads when it's just Portland and The Dalles; if we added Astoria and even just one of the other areas we'd mentioned, the Question threads would fill up very quickly. I'm not sure what the best solution is—multiple Questions, keep the Questions for all-purpose pony comics and crack shipping and add a few planning threads, something else entirely—but I do think we need a solution. 

 

Thoughts? 

 

What if I made a public service announcement with ponies warning people not to post ponies?

 

Maybe we could use the Member Blogs feature to announce major planning topics (when to start the Astoria thread, new character concepts for review, etc). I've never used that feature though, so I have no idea how it works.

[Voidus]

There is the option of doing planning in PMs more, I know that a few of us do already but I think it's an easier way to plan and we seem to be a bit more on-topic in them.

[Kobold King he/him]

There is the option of doing planning in PMs more, I know that a few of us do already but I think it's an easier way to plan and we seem to be a bit more on-topic in them.

 

Speak for yourself. I've been known to get way off topic in PMs.

 

Is there a way to flag Question thread posts as important? With some sort of special icon or colored text, perhaps, letting skimming forum members know what they should be reading?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Speak for yourself. I've been known to get way off topic in PMs.

 

Is there a way to flag Question thread posts as important? With some sort of special icon or colored text, perhaps, letting skimming forum members know what they should be reading?

 

Maybe a serious planning thread would be the answer here. 

 

…I was going to say I could pin it, but I pin a ton of topics already, so if I'm not careful we'll have every single topic in this forum pinned ere long. I like to pin things a bit too much.  

 

But seriously, if I set up a thread for planning only with the stipulation that ponies be kept to a minimum, do you think that would work? 

[Mailliw73 he/him]

... So, erm, sorry to interrupt, but how does one go about joining this thing? (Aside from posting and asking to join and all.)  This RP looks really awesome. 

 

I have a couple ideas for Epics, and, (thanks to the very helpful summary posts a little ways back) pretty well understand what's going on in the Dalles. 

 

However, I have two(-ish) problems. I'm having difficulty thinking up a suitably pretentious and self-important name, and I'm wondering whether or not I should add more limitations on the powers of the Epic I'm thinking of running. At the moment, he's not super-powerful (it's not like he can level city block or anything) he can just do a crap ton of stuff, with clever applications of the one ability. (I'm not sure exactly where to introduce him into the thread either, as depending on who he met and when he met them, he could fall on pretty well any side. This can come later, however.)

 

Anyways onto a (relatively) brief description:

Name: ?? (I'm kinda leaning towards Frostfire, or something similar, because it reflects the main use of his power.)

 

Primary Power:

Energy Manipulation: Can transfer energy from himself, or any object in direct physical contact with him, to anything within sight. Is allowed to choose the vectors of the energy he's applying (in the case it is something that can be described in vectors). 

 

Secondary Power:

Life Sense: More energy-sense than anything, but he has the ability to gauge the rough location of objects around him. (The greater net energy the object has, the clearer it is, and the further away he can sense it from. Cool/room temp. stone is a dim blur. Quickly moving objects, open flames, people etc., are fairly definite, bright shapes. Epics (High Epics in particular) tend to be like small suns.) The more he concentrates on it, the better he can see like this.

 

Limitations: Can draw energy only from things he is touching. He can also only transfer energy to things roughly within his line of sight, and to only one target at a time. The more distant an object is, the less effective his power becomes. Can only hold energy for a very short amount of time. Whenever possible, he needs to be rid of whatever he’s absorbed very quickly; the more energy he has, the quicker he needs to be rid of it before losing control and sustaining injury. (For example, when being shot at, he has very little time to stop and choose targets. If he's prepared, he usually won't suffer injury though.)

 

Has no prime invincibility. If you manage to catch him unawares, or somehow dump energy into him faster than he can transfer it (by no means impossible, a small group of people with automatic firearms could probably do it, if they managed to make him stay still long enough), he will die like anyone else.  

 

 

What do you guys think?

 

Hey, Aonar! Great to see you here! It's always fun to see people I know from other areas of the forums join us here. I saw you lurking here a few times and I wondered what was up with that. I like Frostfire. So he can use his powers on any type of energy?

 

Aonar! Glad to have you here. As far as I can see your epic makes sense, though there is the PI problem and the introduction to the story problem.

 

I've been thinking, What if we started the Astoria thread sooner rather than later? The regular plans happen, but the epics under Lucienta's command hold off contacting her, trying to do everything themselves, and only call Lucienta after Portland gets destroyed?

 

Also, are we going to have only one planning thread for the whole RP, or are we going to eventually make a Question: Portland and Question: Astoria threads? This thread already expands at an Exponential rate.

  

I think the Astoria thread is mainly waiting on the Connell plot finishing up. Currently, I'm the one holding that up, sorry. I think we could be finished in a week and then make Astoria.

Multiple threads would solve some problems, but create others, and I think it'd be too much of a hassle.

What if I made a public service announcement with ponies warning people not to post ponies?

 

Maybe we could use the Member Blogs feature to announce major planning topics (when to start the Astoria thread, new character concepts for review, etc). I've never used that feature though, so I have no idea how it works.

  

Speak for yourself. I've been known to get way off topic in PMs.

 

Is there a way to flag Question thread posts as important? With some sort of special icon or colored text, perhaps, letting skimming forum members know what they should be reading?

If someone wants to test the blogs, go for it. I've never used them either.

The only icons I know of are the popular ones when a post gets 10 upvotes. But colored text, like the OOC blue in Elimination, might work. I vote for that idea.

Also, Joe, I don't think you saw it, so I'll ask again. I don't really have anything for Max to do in Atticus, do you want to post to get it set up for him to make his plan known?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I'll add that to my list of things to write tomorrow.

[Kobold King he/him]

Maybe a serious planning thread would be the answer here. 

 

…I was going to say I could pin it, but I pin a ton of topics already, so if I'm not careful we'll have every single topic in this forum pinned ere long. I like to pin things a bit too much.  

 

But seriously, if I set up a thread for planning only with the stipulation that ponies be kept to a minimum, do you think that would work?

I guess that could work. Though I'd prefer colored text, like Mailliw. A whole new thread might be a bit much.

But then, I'm active enough on the Question thread all day long that my opinion probably isn't the most relevant one. We should talk to people like Joe and Voidus, and others that have trouble keeping up this insanity sometimes.

[Aonar he/him]

 

Hey, Aonar! Great to see you here! It's always fun to see people I know from other areas of the forums join us here. I saw you lurking here a few times and I wondered what was up with that. I like Frostfire. So he can use his powers on any type of energy?

 

Yeah, although right now I'm thinking that he isn't fully aware of everything he can do. A meeting between him and Edgerunner or MV would probably be interesting, I think.

 

It seems like everybody's pretty well good with Frostfire's power-set? If so, I'll post a slightly more detailed version to the Epics of Oregon thread, PM his weakness off to TwiLyght and try to think up a place to introduce him into the thread. (Probably tomorrow, though, as it's pretty late right now.)

 

...Speaking of introducing him to the thread, Jain, roughly how many pandas are left in the camp now that they've started a dedicated attack? Pandas would probably make good fodder for playing around with Frostfire's powers, and wouldn't be a bad place to start. 

Edited January 26, 2015 by Aonar Faileas