In #165 you have "brushed-matte black" - this should probably be "brushed, matte black" grammatically speaking, but I don't see hoe it works logically, since the brushed metal pattern is discernable by the way the light plays on tiny grooves in the metal, but matte black reflects little to no highlights. If you just mean it's a very dark metl, pitch black or jet black would be better, even inky black. Also, as you can see, I am now finally out of the potato, and able to correspond in a meaningful way if you are still so inclined.
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WRT your Device's form and Barrier Jacket... we really are rreading each other's mind. Save for your trademark hat, gun, and a palette swap, that sounds remarkably like how my RP character Daisuke looks - his armor is based on the white Danzaiver from Evil Zone, but with gold and black trim (usually, he has multiple forms like a Kamen Rider) plus a cape that's also white with long, thin black triangles edged in gold radiating out from the neck/top edge on the outside, urban camoflage mottled greyson the inside. Unarmored, he has a "device" watch with a gold bezel (his mana color... usually) called the White Brace, which has an "active mode" where the face expands to about 2" diameter and the thin wrist band becomes a set of Liefield linked-cylinders, which contain 6 Cartridges. When he wants to pull up informaiton from his info systems, glowing gold holograms appear over that arm. When he armors up, the "active mode" gem is still on that arm, if a bit closer to the elbow. The thing is, the White Brace is a fke, a common Mid child's toy fitted in a higher quality case, with a simple voice chip that repeats a few phrases when the user says them of "access denied" for anyone else. It has a dimensional layer about the sizeof a lunch vbox, which is in fact what it's intended to be, for school kids who want to grow up to be magi.
He's a cyborg, around 20% overall between bone and tissue weaves and a mana-storing implant network, the main benefits of which being about 50% more mana capacity than the normal human maximum, a variety of enhanced senses, and the ability to leap 20m from a standstill, and/or instantly move about as far in a streak of light just short of actual teleportation. (He can do that too, but isn't very good at it.) The holograms are from an implanted omnitool, as well... basically, it's alll just a bit of camoflage to fit in with what the locals expect while the dimnsion-hopping game is in MSLN space, and a misdirection if he's ever captured so enemies can take it and think they've removed his ability to cast or summon his armor. I'm afraid I'm a little inconsistent with his characterization, but then it's in genre for a sentai-type to be much more flamboyant when armored up, while his 'civilian form' normal self is much more restrained and serious, a 26-yr-old who not only became a full MD but a department head, and is used to behaving in such a way that people forget his age and take him seriously.
But that's not what we're here to read about, and there's still another update for me to read, posted while I was getting Ubuntu configured on this barrelscraper Chromebook! No time to be yammering on now!
Edit to add:
So. have you figured out how to:
a) cause a ring of 5-10mph constantly gusting winds
b) lower the ambient light level, over a more or less wide area
c) raise an extra barrier around yourself, tighter than a Round Shield but not body conformal tight
d) give yourself an eerie glow
e) cause otherwise harmless lightning strikes to land a few feet behind you?
Tack those effects onto ANY attack spell during the charging phase to just after release, and you have extra protection both while you stand there gathering energy and from the shockwave/debris of the impact, and a powerful psychological effect of "OH SHIT OH SHIT HERE COMES A BIG ONE!" to intimidate your opponents... or fake them out and make them throw up their own heavy duty, immobile defenses so you can throw a flash-bang and ABSCOND, possibly with magically boosted speed as the "real" effect of the spell.
No one expects a dude with flaming eyes in an otherwise shadowed face, who just turned the noon sky pitch black and spent thirty seconds charging power inside an impassable force field while silhouetted by lightning to turn tail and run. Sure. it'll only work the first time, but then the second time you smack them in the face with the mega-beam that has the same VFX for the charging sequence as they dash toward you to keep you from escaping like last time. And then the third time, when they're cautious but not totally forting themselves up to immobility, you have one or two of the Numbers jump them from behind while you're playing distraction, then use the super-speed version to charge in and tackle someone - you may be a little guy, but mass x velocity equals energy, all that means is Sufficient Velocity is a bit higher.
On another tangent, look into casting elemental spells. The reason most only use them if they have a capital-A Affinity is it takes so much power otherwise, and while that might not help for your main combat spells there's a whole lot of subtle effects to be done with a little air, earth, water, metal, wood... even lightning and fire, in moderation. See if you can find something either intelligent and willing to be summoned, or trainable and ungodly tough - better yet, the Familiar process can make a little puppy into a human-sized person, can it shift size the other direction?
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Either message me here, or username at yahoo.com.
WRT your Device's form and Barrier Jacket... we really are rreading each other's mind. Save for your trademark hat, gun, and a palette swap, that sounds remarkably like how my RP character Daisuke looks - his armor is based on the white Danzaiver from Evil Zone, but with gold and black trim (usually, he has multiple forms like a Kamen Rider) plus a cape that's also white with long, thin black triangles edged in gold radiating out from the neck/top edge on the outside, urban camoflage mottled greyson the inside. Unarmored, he has a "device" watch with a gold bezel (his mana color... usually) called the White Brace, which has an "active mode" where the face expands to about 2" diameter and the thin wrist band becomes a set of Liefield linked-cylinders, which contain 6 Cartridges. When he wants to pull up informaiton from his info systems, glowing gold holograms appear over that arm. When he armors up, the "active mode" gem is still on that arm, if a bit closer to the elbow. The thing is, the White Brace is a fke, a common Mid child's toy fitted in a higher quality case, with a simple voice chip that repeats a few phrases when the user says them of "access denied" for anyone else. It has a dimensional layer about the sizeof a lunch vbox, which is in fact what it's intended to be, for school kids who want to grow up to be magi.
He's a cyborg, around 20% overall between bone and tissue weaves and a mana-storing implant network, the main benefits of which being about 50% more mana capacity than the normal human maximum, a variety of enhanced senses, and the ability to leap 20m from a standstill, and/or instantly move about as far in a streak of light just short of actual teleportation. (He can do that too, but isn't very good at it.) The holograms are from an implanted omnitool, as well... basically, it's alll just a bit of camoflage to fit in with what the locals expect while the dimnsion-hopping game is in MSLN space, and a misdirection if he's ever captured so enemies can take it and think they've removed his ability to cast or summon his armor. I'm afraid I'm a little inconsistent with his characterization, but then it's in genre for a sentai-type to be much more flamboyant when armored up, while his 'civilian form' normal self is much more restrained and serious, a 26-yr-old who not only became a full MD but a department head, and is used to behaving in such a way that people forget his age and take him seriously.
But that's not what we're here to read about, and there's still another update for me to read, posted while I was getting Ubuntu configured on this barrelscraper Chromebook! No time to be yammering on now!
Edit to add:
So. have you figured out how to:
a) cause a ring of 5-10mph constantly gusting winds
b) lower the ambient light level, over a more or less wide area
c) raise an extra barrier around yourself, tighter than a Round Shield but not body conformal tight
d) give yourself an eerie glow
e) cause otherwise harmless lightning strikes to land a few feet behind you?
Tack those effects onto ANY attack spell during the charging phase to just after release, and you have extra protection both while you stand there gathering energy and from the shockwave/debris of the impact, and a powerful psychological effect of "OH SHIT OH SHIT HERE COMES A BIG ONE!" to intimidate your opponents... or fake them out and make them throw up their own heavy duty, immobile defenses so you can throw a flash-bang and ABSCOND, possibly with magically boosted speed as the "real" effect of the spell.
No one expects a dude with flaming eyes in an otherwise shadowed face, who just turned the noon sky pitch black and spent thirty seconds charging power inside an impassable force field while silhouetted by lightning to turn tail and run. Sure. it'll only work the first time, but then the second time you smack them in the face with the mega-beam that has the same VFX for the charging sequence as they dash toward you to keep you from escaping like last time. And then the third time, when they're cautious but not totally forting themselves up to immobility, you have one or two of the Numbers jump them from behind while you're playing distraction, then use the super-speed version to charge in and tackle someone - you may be a little guy, but mass x velocity equals energy, all that means is Sufficient Velocity is a bit higher.
On another tangent, look into casting elemental spells. The reason most only use them if they have a capital-A Affinity is it takes so much power otherwise, and while that might not help for your main combat spells there's a whole lot of subtle effects to be done with a little air, earth, water, metal, wood... even lightning and fire, in moderation. See if you can find something either intelligent and willing to be summoned, or trainable and ungodly tough - better yet, the Familiar process can make a little puppy into a human-sized person, can it shift size the other direction?
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows