Against the Night OOC

[AJ Fawxe]

Other than providing support and picking off little grunts the only way I could do something significant is if I threw in some psychic duelist abilities. Anti magic sucks lol

[tangletail]

Well thief can fight Comrade Badass His magic was never aggressive, no did it augment his physical shape much. He's just being a rogue and dragging off the injured Otter-wofl before he gets killed and makes his own assignment a nightmare. Priorities.

Oh and Alex ... you're going to laugh about the thief's prejudicism when it's finally brought up.

[Cyril]

*casually amends post*

So I'm not sure how I was going to deal with the commander situation, because my normal description of Camille's material he manipulates is, "not magic but manipulated and formed by magic." However since I had called it magic armor earlier, and it just seems more balanced and less loophole BS'd, I made it vanish off of him and let the main show to Mort and Drake while he dog gets assaulted by minor antagonists.

[AJ Fawxe]

I hate to say it, but to be 100% realistic Micah might just pick off anyone who approaches him and leave you all to suffer. He's been attacked, subjected to racial prejudice, magical prejudice, threats and demands. I'm trying to figure out what's going to keep him on your guys' side lol It might take some of the 'otter things' diplomacy to be honest. I do enjoy the realism in the suspicion though

[Drakeyboy]

Well... Alex you did jump in at a bad time.

As for what I did. Literally that's all I could do. He's been relying on his magic forever so... yeah. I'm probably going to die. T-T

[tangletail]

I'll go ahead and spoil it. The only thing Neshar is racist towards, are goblins and high elves (the snobby sort). Neshar does not like psionics. Tend to be more invasive than he is, and caused him and his squad a lot of hell in the past. Plus it's not like he can change the controller port to prevent you from reading his mind... and memory card.

Also... I thought drake got this... Maybe mort?

[Xavier Akafur]

Otter diplomacy may be a few posts away at least, he's in bad shape. He has a high resistance to physical damage, but necrotic magic will kill him just as easy as anyone else. I was kinda hoping somebody would intercept that missile between my posts :p


As for the commander, Neshar's torture bomb is going to do some damage but he's pretty beefed up on magic already. Drake's in a bad spot because unlike the other mages he seems to rely entirely on magic. Xavier wouldn't be able to fight him either because he's partially made of magic. That shield would have a similar effect as a sudden onset disease if he got close to it. I'm not 100% sure of the effect it would have on Mort's blood. I guess that depends on how that ability is defined. Also, I feel like Dragonhawk will be largely unaffected, and Micah could potentially still use certain abilities.


Speaking of, are you okay Nemael? Not pushing for a post just a bit worried

[Cyril]

Given you entered in the middle of the fray, our characters probably wouldn't trust you.
I'm taking it from a cynical approach my character would be likely to take being trusting the wrong person would get him and others killed at this point, and please don't believe it's me trying to be unfriendly towards you as a person.
My actions in roleplay don't reflect how I feel towards the owners of other characters.
After things stop flying, Camille can do so come sweet talking. Explain why he rejected the mental heal thing and whatnot. But given he's more avoid injury, he'll take a fight over hearing diplomacy any day.

[Drakeyboy]

Tangle you expected a mage with no real combat skills beyond his magic to be able to take on a pure anti-mage soldier?

I have heard of wishful thinking before but that's a bit of a stretch don't ya' think?

[tangletail]

Neshar legitimately thought he had martial skills .

[AJ Fawxe]

Whoa, okay. Don't worry guys, I know you have nothing against me as a person. I tend to play my characters both online and offline very realistically. If it would be logical for my character to act in a certain way, then they will, even if it's to the detriment of himself or the party.

For the record though, his magic is just another form of spellcasting. It's functionally identical to other forms of spell casting save that psychic spells never have verbal or somatic components. Psychic spell casters replace those components with thought and emotion components respectively. Their magic is derived from their mind, body, spirit and even their cosmic self.

Also, in order to use his duelist powers he would have to sacrifice an unused spell to create a manifestation to directly attack the commanders mind. He could resist as if it was any normal attack, obviously though, Micah would only use it if he had to what with the significant cost. Duels are tricky bitches so I think for a forum rp they should be avoided

[tangletail]

I'd suggest to just do it . Chances are... the "Torutring powder" (love the name by the way Xavier), did something to him... which might be wrecking havoc on his longues, eyes, nose, mouth, and skin. With the power he absorbed... it just might be painful enough for it to be distracting. My guess at some damage


Hopefully that also means he's not going to put up as hard core of a fight when you work your magic on his head. That... and hopefully that shield augments only physical ability. And not will power as well.

[AJ Fawxe]

Well, if I could use the spell "Instigate Psychic Duel" and do it proper I'd feel better, but then if he was hit by one of you guys it could drag him out of the mindscape and end the duel before I could do much. It would also mean I kinda take the spotlight by doing a one on one thing.


Psychic Duelist abilities allow me to create an offensive manifestation which directly assaults the opponents mind and subsequently the body outside of a psychic duel, but outside of a duel I can only draw from my spells for power. So not a very long assault at all.


Your eagerness to see me wreck his shit is appreciated Tangle! I'm just making sure all the various minutiae are sorted out lol

[tangletail]

Well... at the moment... there's only three characters that can stand a chance against em .

There's mort... who would probably leave Comrade Badass a smear on the ground if his power isn't taken away from him...

Then there's Neshar and Micha. Buut... fleeing is also a valid option. But someone might want to save Drakey's butt.

[Drakeyboy]

Kinda have a big sliver in my leg here.