Technique Questions

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Question on Darken. As it says it turn's the area's day into night, could this work to transform Woylfs, Night Seers, or Vaspires into their stronger forms? And day seers into their weaker? Or is it strictly for visual effect?

With the Toughness and MToughness packages. In order to gain the effects of the two techs, you have to use them as in readying your self for an attack or something like that, right? Or is they always active on you >_>

They're not passive. So I think you have to use it in prep to a hit.

yup

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Question on Darken. As it says it turn's the area's day into night, could this work to transform Woylfs, Night Seers, or Vaspires into their stronger forms? And day seers into their weaker? Or is it strictly for visual effect?

ya, it does that

@ kaz: silence whore! you're not around enough to complain!
@ kyro& jaijai: most spells will have the accuracy w/em regardless, so ya for that tech train it like any other spell to see if it works

Summoner
» Enhanced Attributes
Unlocks the spirit's inner strength causing it to increase in attributes.
Effect: spirits attributes increase to Strong

Shouldn't this one of those passive abilities that doesn't need training?

So I'm confused. Do the Hitorinji get a transformation? And what is this stuff about being more adept at skills dependant on their proficiency? Does that mean I deal more damage with my attacks if I'm a physical weapon affinity? Do my spells go up one step defensively/offensively if I'm spell based? I'm very lost here.

Mode invoking Tech's

So I have a Tech at rank 5 (Perfected) that invokes a mode for hmm 5 post (I don't really but that doesn't matter) We'll call this tech Mode A
1) Does it cost sta to Invoke Mode A? If so is it a set sta (ie: 5 sta) or does it cost sta for each post (ie: 5 sta on post 1st post, 5 sta on 2nd post.... so on and so on)
2) If when Mode A ends can it be Invoked again right after the 5th post. or is there a cool down
3) While Mode A is Invoked can Mode B be Invoked (ie: Jet Lee goes DBZ and invokes Fighter's Heart, and Lightning Kicks to pwn Chuck Norris's ass with a super Kitasu Kao... Chuck blocks it with his iron chin custom taken no dmg while the earth blows up for the shock weave)

@rekdoggy - ya... i can see that.
@darkK - whatcha talkin bout willus?! copy/paste is your friend
@rekdoggy - 1) yes, 2) yes, 3) GOOD QUESTION. for now i'll allow it unless i see that it causes issues
@kaz - good input, i'll look into all of it.
2 ) haku is more of a 'ooh pretty' than an evasion. drain on abilities w/o drain's listed is posted in breakdown
3 ) roll
4 ) think arms. a punch does the same damage as if you did a axe hand (2 hand) strike/punch. so ya, it does strong per strike. the ^ in # makes it easier to get a strike to hit etc
5 ) naw, i expressed which techs could be caste on others. use shasma.
6 ) yes
7 ) everyone
8 ) no, that's what rest is for. i expressed which techs could be caste on others in tech descriptions.
9 ) ya, char returns to how he started the rp basically
10 ) no. it just categorizes the type of package it is for now. possible expansion in the future.

Here's a fun one...

If someone successfully uses Seal on you, can you use Grand Dispel to break it?

Seal
TEXP: 10
The ability to seal a spirit's influence within a host's body. This removes the ability of the target host to use Magix or Possession abilities. The caster must maintain visual contact with a target in order to seal it. It takes a post to start the spell and a post to end it.
Effect: Seals, drain is Fierce, effect lasts 2 days per level IRL

It's not my place to interfere, but it specifies on the ability that it removes the target's ability to use Magix. So, in theory no you can't use Grand Dispell because you can't cast the spell.

See that's what I was thinking too, but the description of Grand Dispel makes you wonder... b/c since Demon Arts has Unsealing which forcefully breaks the seal...

Grand Dispel
TEXP: 15
A spell that forcefully breaks/negates any magixal ability, bind, spell or illusion.
Effect: drain is Destructive

I started wondering if Grand Dispel could do the same thing...

That's a very good question...

wow! u found an existing paradox. so unsealing should be a defensive tech >.> but lets see. gd says "any" and seal removes magix. so how bout this. you gota use gd DURING the seal to break it, like on reaction. that why you can break it before it's fully set in place

That makes sense. Thanks.

fisho lil homie >.>
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Should this be a passive tech?

Acrobatics
TEXP: 1
Enhances the users agility and ability to move with ease in the air and perform tumbles and flips.
Effect: dexterity attribute +1 when in the air or flipping

Question 2: For an Onikonjou, since the description says that their beast form can be as small as that of a normal human, does that mean that someone could be a winged human and that would be their beast form?
b) If they can take such a form since it's predominantly humanoid, would they use the physical melee or beast melee in this form?

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Should this be a passive tech?

Acrobatics
TEXP: 1
Enhances the users agility and ability to move with ease in the air and perform tumbles and flips.
Effect: dexterity attribute +1 when in the air or flipping

No. Just like physical melee fighting packages, your ability and skill in the utilization of acrobatics should increase as its trained, taking you from the Olympics to Spiderman.

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Question 2: For an Onikonjou, since the description says that their beast form can be as small as that of a normal human, does that mean that someone could be a winged human and that would be their beast form?
b) If they can take such a form since it's predominantly humanoid, would they use the physical melee or beast melee in this form?

b) It's called "beast" form, so guess which package it should support, genius. For simply this reason, a 'beast' form should not be allowed to be humanized. Next would come the question whether they could use human weapons and such since they would be 'humanoid beasts' which is more retarded than the Woylf discussion.

Do *Required techs like the melee styles need to be trained or do you just get them and train the abilities associated with that style?

I have some questions about the Shadow Familiars technique.

The first is about the description of the tech, "a pool of shadows on the ground", does this mean that the pool of shadows in question could be conjured up with the technique, or the shadows created by something else?

The second is about how the technique works, would the pool of shadows be able to move around to get close to a target in order to attack the target, or are they stuck in a single place?

Acrobatics would make more sense as a passive technique.
It works on the condition that you're in the air or performing some sort of flip, movement, etc, rather than an ability that you 'activate'.
Just sayin.

I agree. I'm not saying it shouldn't be trainable, it should by all means follow the Novice -> Perfected pathway.
Its just the technique itself seems better fitted as passive as its seems more like something of a permanent improvement of a character's flexibility.

Would a technique like Unwetting Rayne affect summoned minions? (i.e. Golems, Chaotic Familiars, Puppetry, etc.)

starting from the buttom up

@jai - espir descript dun say they're made w/metals. high density composite would be a lot better due to electronic interference w/their systems and w/not. if a charrie is an espir and says they're made out of metal, go for it.
you gotta use lytescatter to magnetize metals, so if you can get it to touch the pacemaker, then ya. the piercings'll prob work too, etc. it'd be the same as grabbin em and ripping em out of someone etc.

@theme - sure

@theme @ esca - ya, but if it's passive, then ppl assume it dun have to be trained. it can be thought of however it needs t'be, but it still needs to be trained to be perfected.

@rune - yes, you conjur the pool. do NOT dive into it. and no running around the pool. the pool is static. you build it, they attack there, etc. it dun have honing props.

@psi - ya, train em both

@psi2 - what would u kno bout butthair? xD

I see, alright thanks.

Passive not needing to be trained? Thats nonsense.
Futeki, Capacity, and almost every sensory ability are examples of the passive techs that need to be trained. The only real non-trainable passive techs are the quest techniques like flight and spiritual impression. In which case, they're not trained because they're quest techniques.

You can make a litte thing like Acrobatics passive. Chamooon. This is of course in no way related that I just learned the tech. >>

Hey Mariko! =D

Another Shadow Familiar question; Would you be able to summon multiple pools of shadow, each with there own amount of little demon monster things, or are you only able to summon one at a time?

"Attached to a pool of shadows" would imply that you can only summon one pool per chant... tho that's what customs are for if you wanna make multiple.

Then, to summon another, all I would have to do was preform the chant again, unless doing so would replace the previous one with a new one.

@ theme - lol
@ rune - 1 at a time, unless you base a custom off it. think this one is a single turn attack if it dun state that it stays out for a # of posts.

Alright, I have a question that deals with techniques like Shadow Familiar and the other familiar based techniques. In the info about these techs, it says that you are able to create multiple familiars based on the control level of the technique, now if you had a Familiar technique on Trained, you would be able to summon up two familiars in a way, would these two familiars be able to attack different targets, or the same target (if the master chooses) and do two separate damages to the target or targets?

ya

@ theme
1. when i made this tech, i basically wanted to make it so that small metal items would be attracted or repelled from w/e is magnetized. so like, if someone got their sword scattered, spoons, metal shards, nails and stuff would stick to it, etc. it was mostly sposed to set up magnetism but solo it'd basically make somethin metal a magnet, so i guess if the magnet had a strength it'd prob be based on the user's attributes where the use can put as much or as lil in it as they need to. i dunno if that answers ur question or not. might have to think a lil on that one.
2. i'm thinkin pretty much all mag atks move at a rate of fierce regardless of type

@ jai
1. ya, i can see what you saw there
2. the mag. lasts for 2 posts on what ever the object is that's magnetized. u dun have to hold the tech. it drops after 2 turns automatically.

hope this helps :m044:
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