When Darkness Falls (OOC)

[The Wandering Magus]

whenever y'all say "they walk forward"

[Ründo]

oh good everyone is starting head out.   I guess that means Noy will rejoin the group somewhere in the gardens.

[The Wandering Magus]

yay~

[Omega_Khaos]

~OOC to The Stars:

If needed we can make that conversation a pm type one and just in character have Tech and Range talk quietly to one side.

[The Stars]

It seems quite important, sure, let's go for it.

[Omega_Khaos]

cool just waiting on the in character post.
Post Merge
that was one heck of a way to end that little bit in our little solo RP. Thanks made me giggle.

~omega_khaos(Tech)

[The Stars]

:U How the heck do you post merge? That's freaking coooooool XD

[Omega_Khaos]

make multi post one after another and it merges

[The Stars]

Ah :U And my day is officially done (Even though it's 2pm XD).
I do NOT Have an adrenaline rush, but I think I'm gonna crash :U

[Mr.Fox]

sorry for not saying anything it is just that I'm always to busy to do anything that I want to do

so I'm going to post when I'm done in my vacation and again I'm very sorry for leaving 

[Omega_Khaos]

it cool Mr. Fox. but glad to have ya back.

[The Wandering Magus]

sorry for not saying anything it is just that I'm always to busy to do anything that I want to do

so I'm going to post when I'm done in my vacation and again I'm very sorry for leaving 

glad to have you return anytime

[The Stars]

Details for new skill: Return to Sender
Creates a barrier around the user and/or several individuals, allowing magical attacks to exit, but any external assault to be absorbed by the shield and become repelled back in a volatile explosion.

Absorption limit : ??? (I'll let Magus decide how much the limit should be since the combat system here is a bit different XD

Damage reflected: ??% (Again, for Magus XD)
Force Reflected : 100%

Barrier length : As long as it can absorb or Mana can still be drawn to keep the barrier up.

Larger the Area of effect, the faster Mana will be discharged.
If absorption limit is exceeded, all damage built up will be lost and the barrier will break.


If there's any balancing for this new ability that I have to do, Let me know

[The Wandering Magus]

Caster and any other mana suppliers are incapable of doing anything other than walking and talking, breathing and other life-necessary activities; walking speed slowed to 50% normal, all Evade and Block abilities removed.  1 pony per every 5 simultaneous incoming "attack" on the shield.  Passive "attacks" (like trying to walk directly into spikes or loophole a pool of acid), no reflection.  Melee attacks, 50% reflection.  Projectile attacks, 10% reflection with 50% miss chance.  AoE non-physical attacks, 5% reflection with 75% miss chance.

[The Stars]

Sounds quite balanced Alrighty then.

And , I wonder who in their right mind would use an AOE attack on a shield :U

So, I'm guessing so that speed is reduced and evade/block is incapable of working, I don't really need an absorption limit? Or would the 1 pony per every 5 attacks? (I honestly don't know what that meant XD )

[Ründo]

talked it over with Magus, mainly regarding balance... here are the specifics of the ability.


[Return to Sender]
Creates a barrier around the user and/or several individuals, allowing magical attacks to exit, but any external assault can be absorbed by the shield (there might be exceptions) and become repelled back in a volatile explosion.

• Larger the Area of effect, the faster Mana will be discharged. (yes there is such a thing as Mana exhaustion)


• Block Effect: [damage5%] absorption per a Caster turn, each attack


• [damage25%] max absorption per a Caster, each shield


• Threshold of [damage20%] per a Caster, each shield


• If absorption threshold is exceeded, all damage built up will expelled as an attack, at half power (AOE mechanics.)


• requires sustaining - requires the caster to spend their action each round to maintain the barrier.  This still allows for things like speaking and moving


• Movement speed is halved

feel free to ask questions

[The Stars]

Hm... Eh, It kinda contradicts when you say the threshold is 20% dmg when the max absorption is 25% XD Everything else is fine by me, but those 2 right there just kinda seemed to cross my mind and made me think that the max absorption should be the same as the threshold? Or is the threshold the amount of damage per round that the shield can withstand?

And of course, Everything can't be absorbed by the shield :U Anything that's stronger than barrier itself will cause it to break down, logically. And , You kinda played with the 1st attribute of the skill like I never knew a thing about mana exhaustion when I clearly wrote that down in the first place :U

[Ründo]

sorry fixed a few things. (see above)  I got rid of the max attacks blocked, as it usually would case the shield to explode by that point, stopping it from blocking any more attacks anyway.

as for threshold and max:

• Threshold: the amount of damage the shield can hold before breaking down and exploding


• Max: the most amount of damage the shield can successfully fire back (not including the half power reduction from being an AOE)

[The Stars]

Ok then, That's easily understandable

[Omega_Khaos]

Well all I can say is that TC just picked it up, as a personal skill much like his scan ability, for later usage and he can help in maintaining it as well.