Aonar
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(So much I could do here, it's not even funny. ) You patiently sit at your table, waiting for your refreshing glass of water to appear. Miraculously, it does. There's just one problem. Scenario A: The 'glass' is perfectly spherical, filled to the top with water. However, if you want to drink it, you'll have to shatter it. Scenario B: The glass in question is an over-large whisky tumbler, which, upon hitting the surface of the table, immediately tips over and spills the water into your lap. Scenario C: The glass appears with a loud crack, and falls to the table, vibrating. A faint mist arises from the top, but it appears otherwise empty. Angrily, you berate the genie for not fulfilling the wish. They patiently go on to explain that, while you did specify that the glass be filled, you didn't say with how much water. As a gas expands to fill the volume of it's container, the glass was filled with water; water vapor, that is. A very small amount of it, suspended in an otherwise perfect vacuum. (Once again, someone else can provide a wish. I'm too tired to try to make one that's properly hard to twist out of shape.) Edit. Ninja'd many times over.
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A alternate for this one: You find yourself suddenly nowhere, and everywhere. The paradoxical state of both maintaining and altering your current position and momentum in space-time has rendered your whole being quantumly unstable, and scattered your atoms across the cosmos. At first, your life goes on as normal, and you believe yourself to have beaten the genie. However, when you perform your first major transmutation (turning iron into gold) the heat of the nuclear fusion reaction fries everything in a kilometer's radius, including you. Someone else can do the next wish, though. I can't think of a good one.
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Mach is a relative measure based on the speed of sound in air. So as temperature fluctuates, so does speed, when measured in machs. Would it not be your turn with the wish, as you broke mine? Or perhaps Rae's?
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But remember, we are in Canada on an unusually cold day, so Mach 1 is only about 10 m/s. * *Note, this is a joke. It does not actually get this cold in Canada. Or anywhere in the known universe, as a matter of fact. : P
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I know. You can feel free to ignore that one. (I saw a way to break the game, and I couldn't resist. [Which I believe may mean that I win. ]) If you can think of a way to warp it, go ahead, otherwise try: I would like an orange. To be more specific, one singular fruit of the citrus reticulata tree, of average size, fully ripened, unaltered, placed exactly one centimeter above my left palm. This fruit's internal temperature must be within 10 and 25 degree Celsius, and it must be unblemished. It must not contain seeds, and must be both flavourful, and juicy. It must not in any way be offensive the the palate, and it must be in all ways normal in anatomy and composition, other than those exceptions already stated. Once again, good luck. Edit: And ninja'd again.
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Ooh, this looks fun. You end up with a: (I had two options here; I'll go with the less disturbing/cheap one first.) A: Nothing. Upon frantic questioning as to the location of your pancake, you are informed that it is directly beneath your feet. You should have been more specific about what you consider a plate. B: Steaming, well-done pile of meat, bone and viscera, roughly eight inches in diameter and a quarter inch thick, on a dinner plate, in your outstretched hands. You drop it, and the plate shatters. As you slowly stammer out a horrified question, the genie grins mischievously and tells you that he is, "not quite sure what exactly a 'pancacke' is," so he found the first thing matching that description, compressed it to your specifications, and cooked it thoroughly. He thinks it might be German. Bon appetit. As for my wish... I wish that the genie henceforth and forever grant all wishes (including this one) according to the intent of the wisher, rather than their own warped interpretation of the exact wording. (Have fun with that one. ) Edit: Dangit. Ninja'd.
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Okay, thanks. So I know both capacitance and amperage should increase velocity quadratically. (Although capacitance is limited by the amount of time the projectile contacts the rails.) So if I add another 10 capacitors in parallel, I should get a speed 100x higher. That's about 1/2m/s. If I do 20 I should get about 1m/s, or 3.6 km/h. That's still not much, but it's at least in numbers that can be easily visualized. If I'm willing to shell out the money for better capacitors (probably 25V 1 cF, if I can find some to that specification) I could easily get some pretty decent speeds, even with heavier projectiles.
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Alright. So in physics class the other day we got an assignment; basically, we have to build a novel/useful electronic device based on the motor principle. Naturally, my mind went to a desktop railgun. Now, here's the problem. I have access to a handful of 1 mF, 25V capacitors for free. Assuming a resistance in the railgun of about 0.01 Ohms (I haven't actually built it yet) that should give me about 2500A to work with per capacitor; more than enough for my purposes, even given nothing like ideal conditions and a high probability of error. However, I'll have 2500A for about 10 microseconds, tops. Now, assuming I've done my math right in my estimations, can anyone tell me if 2500A (or 5 Newtons of force, after all the calculations are done) for 10 microseconds is enough to do anything meaningful?(For reference, I'm assuming a projectile weight between 10 and 100 grams) My gut instinct says no, but I want to be sure before I start ordering higher-quality capacitors.
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Araris was indeed assassinated. Clanky: You're still technically a University student. Just one that the teachers consider too fragile to actually teach anything too.
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Just as a quick heads up; I'll be attacking Eshe this turn. If there's a player there who doesn't want to get kicked from the game quite this early, let me know.
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The idea is that if he's not actively taking them with him, the transition isn't perfect; they get temporarily caught outside before snapping back to the regular flow of time. To an outside observer, Eternity and whoever he took with him would appear to re-enter time simultaneously, but whoever was left behind would experience thousands of years difference. He's not doing anything to the universe, just himself and whatever he takes with him. Really, he's less stopping time and more stepping outside it. So long as it has clearly defined limits, I think it shouldn't be a problem. I'm still not 100% sure where the idea of him being ridiculously overpowered is coming from. (Well, no, I do, but given that there is a legitimate in-story reason for him to be unable to use his powers in such a manner, I don't fully see where the problem is.) Limited as he is, between the actual physical extents of his power, (For reference, these are the inability to affect objects that he has not brought with him outside time, the inability to take objects that cannot be intuitively comprehended/visualized in their entirety, and the inability to take more than roughly a dozen objects at a time.) and Accord's restrictions (which I feel should be taken into account, given that they're a legitimate in-universe constraint) he's not going to be taking over the world anytime soon; and he probably won't be able to do more to the Astorians than give them a bit of a scare, unless he gets very lucky. Except the first is no longer an option for him, and the second I'm actually thinking about removing in favour of a corollary to the whole snapping back idea explained above. (This would mean that in contrast to making inanimate objects disappear, the best he could do would be move them.) Basically? Accord owes Azrael a favour. Azrael wants Bioterror and Brightdeath humiliated at the very least, if not killed. Accord can't exactly refuse (he's just as bound by his powers as others) but he also assumes it might additionally provide an opportunity to increase his influence slightly/get a feel for Oregon's political climate, as it were, so I'm toying with the idea of him sending one of his Proxies (gifted vanillas) along as well. I'm not 100% sure which city I want it to be yet, but I'm thinking somewhere in western Nevada/Idaho. He knows better than to try to expand without a fool-proof opportunity, and I'm also not sure yet whether I want to to be common knowledge that Accord is the one with real power; it's more than likely that there's a High Epic figurehead involved.
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What exactly do you mean? I already clarified that his power won't let him physically leave something living in stopped time. If he tries, it doesn't work, although the person he tries to leave behind experiences aeons of isolation; generally enough that they might as well be dead when they get back. (Which is why a strong enough mentalist could probably 'heal' someone that this has happened to, by sealing off the relevant memories.) There are no timelines involved. (So I guess the 'eternity of eternities' interpretation would be right, as every time Eternity enter stopped time, the instant he enters is separate from all other instants prior.) Really, if I wanted his power to be wholly internally consistent; anything he leaves outside time, living or not should be removed from existence, but that's definitely overpowered. Regardless though, this isn't something that will come up; Accord's restrictions won't let him use his powers to their fullest extent. For the purposes of the RP, he'll be basically limited to effective teleportation, limited cancelling (Basically, he can engage in fisticuffs with any character he happens to feel like, with no interference from Epic powers on either end, given how his stopped time works), and enhanced reflexes/general danger-sense PI (well, that and a justified version of Talking is a Free Action ). As for why he's in Astoria... well, that one should be explained whenever I get around to posting his intro. Well, I would think it would let him rule a city quite well, it's just getting into that position that's the tricky bit. My vague idea for his backstory had him spending roughly three years in relative secrecy and anonymity, slowly accumulating favours and deals with vanillas and minor Epics until he had accumulated enough power to bind stronger, more destructive Epics into his service; from there wresting control from the resident High Epic. If you guys think that sounds unrealistic, though, I can always throw in a PI of one sort or another, or make Accord and enforcer for some other High Epic. Really though, I doubt Accord or anyone from that city besides Eternity (and perhaps a vanilla) will have any impact on the RP's overall story.
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1. Yes, but that's something which won't happen in the RP outside flashbacks (and will be explained in Eternity's proper introduction post). Basically, Accord is ridiculously afraid of Eternity's powers; luckily for him, Eternity swore himself into service when he was still unaware of the full ramifications of his abilities, so Accord was able to artificially limit him after recapturing him. (Also, when this happens it is different from when non-living objects are left behind; rather than being destroyed, they enter a vegetative state. Which, I'll add, could be healed by a particularly skilled memory Epic, assuming those exist.) 2. Eternity ages at a completely normal rate in real-time, it's just that time spent outside real-time does not contribute to this. So I figure that's probably alright. 3. Eternity can only interact with things that are experiencing the same time-flow that he is. If he has stepped outside time, he can only interact with things he has brought with him, and vice versa. (Notably, this means that if he wants to do something like light a fire or whatever, he'll have to bring in enough oxygen to react to whatever fuel source he has. Given that the primary limit on his power is the number of objects he can take out of time, and air's status as an object is somewhat amorphous, this and other things are impractical, if not downright impossible, for him to do outside of time.) 4. What do you think would be better? I played with the idea of it being extreme pain, or having a stated consequence just happen, but both of those kind of feels like adding another power, (particularly the second, which would make him into a limited reality warper) and I kind of like the idea of a city being lead by a minor Epic, if a relatively powerful one. 5. Yup. She's the one Eternity 'killed' in the backstory I posted.
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I might reassess that one if/when Eternity gets canonized, if I were you. Speaking of which, I'm working on a post to put Az on hiatus and introduce a few characters that have only appeared in WHOOC so far, so I figure I might as well post their profiles here to get some input. Eternity: Accord: Areadbhar: (Deceased-ish)
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Assuming you're talking about Frostfire and Converter, Frostfire's powers deal with transfer only, not conversion, and even in that he's substantially more limited than both Converter and StrawMan's proposed Epic, so it's not really a problem yet. (To be honest, I'm kind of glad I only gave him transfer; it means I only ever have to deal with one set of equations when I'm checking a viability of a given usage, rather than jumping back and forth between two. )
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Actually.... In the final write up (which never got finished, unfortunately) there was to be a two-part twist ending. One of the reveals was that the village was actually post-Catacendre, with all the implications that entails. (If you want more details on it, you can PM me or Newan.) I'm not sure whether or not Phatt is running this with those twists in mind, but... Could I get a link to the spec doc?
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Have to get these in quick, before I lose the airport wifi. Action 1: Try for heir. (Weyr, Gwyndolyn) Action 2: Quell the riots (restore order) in Urteau. Action 3: Give recompense to Skaa for the injustices done to them in Tathiel's grandparents time, (or at least, i think it was grandparents. It might be great grandoarents.) publicly renouncing those pratices, and atempting to reinstate old Izenry edicts involving the treatment of skaa, while also repaying them in better food and improved working conditions.
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Alright. I think I'd be interested in this. It's question time, though. What's the turn length? (Irl and in game?) Can we interact with NPC nations in all the same ways we can interact with other players? How will those actions be handled? How much freedom do we have? How much if anything are we able to do that isn't inherently obvious in the rules? More questions are liable to come, but they'll probably he over PM.
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Going to be in Belize for 9-ish days, so if you need me... try not to.
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How do we know? Well, technically, we're in an ice age right now. (Seonid already gave the serious answer, that we don't technically know, but have pretty good suspicions based on theories about carbon emissions and how they've aligned with meteorological measurements, but I'm going to have a bit of fun with this, if you don't mind. ) The Quaternary Ice Age is ongoing at the moment; the only reason we aren't all freezing to death is that we happen to be in an interglacial period, basically, a short (geologically speaking) warm spell amidst the ice age. Generally, these last between 10 and 15 thousand years. Based on what research has been done, this means the current interglacial period should be winding down within the next 1-3 thousand years. However, given current temperature and weather patterns, our best predictions are placing the next glaciation at around 50 thousand + years from now. (And assuming current theories are right, and our carbon emissions keep increasing, we may never leave the current interglacial period.) So yeah. If Canadians like me aren't all buried under a couple miles of ice in the next millennium or so, then there's a pretty good chance we've had a fair bit to do with global warming. (Of course, if we wait that long before doing something about global warming, then we'll have much bigger problems on our hands than some missing ice.)
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We will default to true on any situation where we are uncertain. However, with anything game-related you can assume that we will have a reasonable amount of certainty.
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No, because reflexes/speed are not a part of his powerset. If they were, that's one thing, but simply being an Epic doesn't (at least as far as I know) make one vastly more physically capable than the average person.
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Personally, I felt it fit well with some of her comments where she seemed to see herself as a "healer" of sorts; bleeder could, in that context, have connotations involving archaic medical practices, like leeching and bloodletting. This seems to be supported by the Polish translation that you've given. ("Barber surgeon" was a term for battlefield medics during medieval times, when practices like those were common.)
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MR12 Should start sign-ups sometime over the next couple days. Not sure who's running it, but it'll be soon.
I won't be around much.