"Merciful Ether. This woman draws flowcharts in her head. I'm leaving."
The Lampshade Hanging is strong on this one.
edited 31st Mar '18 9:38:30 AM by EternaMemoria
"The dried flowers are so beautiful, and it applies to all things living and dead."
I vote Yea. Enough stuff has happened to where my previous estimate of fifteen minutes is grossly outdated.
PS: Millership, I forgot to ask, what color is the Inquisitor's stray horse? A technical term would be appreciated but not necessary, I can infer the technical term from a layman's description.
edited 31st Mar '18 8:37:19 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.![]()
I'd say yes. Parthenia's trip from scar to Town Square took about an hour, too.
Dapple black.
Sweet! I learned something new today
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edited 31st Mar '18 9:39:01 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.@ladytanuki and WillDeRegio: there's probably sufficient cause here
for Cormack, Lily and Carol to overhear Peggy tell someone that the elf with all the weapons is sitting at the neighbouring table.
edited 1st Apr '18 12:30:40 PM by Wolf1066
While I'm twiddling my thumbs for ladytanuki and Corvidae, I might as well ask, how am I doing in portraying the equine perspective? Is it suitably inhuman? Do you have any constructive criticism (even nitpicks are welcome) with how I integrate exposition on body language details?
Edit: Oooh, Jann cast an eavesdropping spell on Rosalind's heart! This oughta be fun... (reads further) What fastens Jann's coat closed? Buttons? A zipper?
edited 1st Apr '18 9:33:16 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.Well, since we've got people with a wide variety of sensational Super-Senses and Supernatural Sensitivity, I'll put some facts into the open:
All of my characters in Adventure have at least trace amounts of magic on them, thanks to either living on a planet full of aether, or living being imprisoned in the realm of the fairies.
Cynthia, Diantha, Lily, Moobly, Carol, and Jane would all register as some variety of "mage", the first five more so than the latter, due to being proficient in some variety of aether usage.
For the thermographically sensitive in the cast, Diantha and Lily have a core body temperature of approximately 75 °F (24 °C). Moobly has a nice and warm internal body temperature of 104 °F (40 °C), with a hot spot of at least 122 ° (50 °C) in her chest.
Side Note: If I have to type out anymore HTML code in this post, I'm rioting.
All of the uniformed soldiers have rather concentrated sources of magic in their coat pockets in the form of aether crystals. Also, Lily's rifle and Moobly's tonfas also contain magical signatures, due to being pieces of Magitech.
I'm having fun, cause morally malign characters belting out a musical number is very much entertaining. Though a point of clarifying, and since we're on the topics of super perceptiveness: The brief moment Justin's demon had an individual thought was the result of Justin's demon trying to separate himself from Justin- Unfortunately, his Issues regarding demons is why they didn't end up defusing right then and there.
Oh, and merely because I can: His demon's complete thought would of been "I will kill you if you hurt her!" So admittedly, the fact his thought wasn't completed could potentially be noticeable to those with the right perceptive abilities.
Regarding Valerie: Her brief spell at the beginning was simply to remove the health risk stuff. Not like I know a lot about vaping to begin with, but heart problems and fat build up in the liver are what I heard. Ultimately though, I based her sneezing on how I don't like sudden foreign smells. I really hate air fresheners...
Oh, about the nuckelavee: Does anyone else have any particular plans in mind regarding it? Cause ideally I would like Explorer of Unknowns to leave the fighting to others first, so that her magitech can record the resulting data. If no one stops it though, I've been getting hooked on the idea of her essentially making a holy location in the process of stopping it.
edited 2nd Apr '18 7:13:47 PM by Kkutwar
"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."Will De Regio inspired me, so I'm gonna type out some similar exposition on Rosalind. For oversimplified intents and purposes, Rosalind is cold-blooded. It would be more accurate to say she's mesothermic
, meaning she's only mostly at the mercy of environmental temperatures.
Under most circumstances, her body temperature matches the surrounding air except for two hot spots in her brain and belly. Prior to being teleported into the setting, she wasn't subjected to an average circumstance. She'd already lost all her heat to an entire night of outdoor winter air. The small amounts of time she spent on a horse's back, then in the sun, then exposed to a coincidentally warm cleaning spell, wasn't enough to thaw her out completely. Most of her flesh was still a few degrees colder than the surrounding air by the time Jann shook her hand.
When given enough insulation and time, Rosalind can raise the temperature throughout her entire body to match the average human — that's starting to happen now, thanks to borrowing Jann's coat — but it's faster for her to leech heat off of concentrated heat sources, e.g. hot tubs or other warm-blooded beings.
Now, as for why she's mesothermic despite humans not being mesothermic, that's something the characters will have to find out. She'll confess if she's confronted with enough evidence for the "duck rule of thumb" to come into play.
Edit: I just read what the demon did, it's a good thing Rosalind wasn't in earshot! There would have been... side effects...
Okay, okay, since you asked... Generally, in the presence of demons, Rosalind is more likely to lose control of herself. Specifically, the demon's exact song could have done anything from giving Rosalind a peculiar burst of energy, to causing her to reveal her true nature in a very alarming fashion, to accidentally mind-controlling Rosalind, depending on how much power the demon would have "leaked" her way.
As for the nuckelavee, my plans are more like predictions. Any encounter with any of my characters is inevitably going to trigger the nuckelavee's hostility, which will (sooner or later, depending on exact circumstances) end in Rosalind herself declaring the Adventure world is Not Big Enough for the Two of Us and initiating an epic showdown which would bust her secret if it isn't already busted by that point. Rosalind is close enough to human to get attacked on sight, so she'd be forced to defend herself. Any attack on Rosalind's herd, be it injury or plague, is going to trigger a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. The only variable up in the air is whether or not the nuckelavee will come anywhere near my characters in the first place.
edited 2nd Apr '18 8:05:33 PM by Miss_Desperado
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.Is the sole function of the Valerie-Justin-Demon group merely to pick a fight with others? It seems that every action they take, from calling a group of random characters 'icky' to treating everyone as a potential threat to Valerie and over-reacting, they seem to be going out of their way to provoke hostile reactions from those around them. Seriously, no one has said or done anything to suggest that they want to kill Valerie and yet anyone finding her outbursts obnoxious are treated as potential murderers to justify a roaring rampage on the part of the Justin-Demon.
Anyhoo. Useful notes on vaping. The exhaled vapour is mostly Vegetable Glycerin with a small amount of natural flavours (essential oils) that would have a distinctive smell - generally Almond or Hazelnut in Wolfe's case. I don't rule out the possibility for an overly sensitive person to react to it with sneezing, but it's nowhere near the chemical cocktail you'd find in most air fresheners. It's also nowhere near as particulate - air fresheners often fire a spray of aromatic droplets, rather than a vapour (unless its an essential oil vapouriser-style air freshener).
Exhaled nicotine is minimal - most of the nicotine content of the vapour is absorbed by the vaper's body (which is rather the point of the exercise) and quantities vary depending on the strength of the e-liquid. e.g. Sophia's e-liquid contains no nicotine at all; Wolfe's e-liquid nicotine level is 1.8%, the majority of which is not present in the exhaled vapour.
Unlike cigarettes, which continue emitting smoke (containing carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulate carbon, nicotine and 4000-odd known-to-be harmful chemicals, most of which don't naturally occur in tobacco leaves and are the side-effects of the processing the leaf undergoes to make commercial tobacco products) while they are held in the hand or placed in an ashtray, vapourisers only produce the vapour on demand when inhaling so most of the vapour produced by the device is inhaled by the user.
Compared to smoking - or the crap emitted by petrol- or diesel-powered vehicles - vaping is not producing a lot of particulates and those it does produce are not as harmful as the shit coming out of the arse end of the average car, even when it's running at peak efficiency rather than idling at the lights outside your work place...
I haven't been paying much attention to posts other than the ones for Leone's group, so I'm a little confused right now. Am I correct to assume Kris has gotten up and headed to the hotel?
On that note, I've run headlong into writer's block again. I'll try to get something up when I wake up tomorrow (or later today, as the case may be).
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Yes, I've had her go to give Wolfe assistance at the hotel. I thought I had already written her leaving the group at the table but it seems I haven't - blame 'old fart's brain' for that.
Since the Mad Bastards, Gwion's crew, Peal and Aubrey are now all wearing their earpieces, Kris is aware of the conversation that passed between Kaitlyn and Wolfe regarding 'shit going down' in the hotel and Kris is not the sort to leave a friend stranded by themselves.
Things are still pretty quiet over by Chitara's wagon and in the Solstice Café - but they are fairly close to the near-brawls of supernatural nature.
edited 3rd Apr '18 2:06:27 AM by Wolf1066
Finished re-reading the non-CDT shared story thread from late 2012. Pretty short lived, post-count wise, but fun while it lasted. Maybe it's because the character is so mercurial by nature, but I felt a lot better about my old stuff for Mud compared to his companion or Joseph and Oswald in University. I can tell, or remember, that I had a lot of fun writing his stuff, just by reading it. Must've been riding some post-high-school high.
I still find it hard not to miss some of the old writers that have come and gone. I'll check sometimes, but usually they aren't active on the site at all anymore.
They'll turn your world aroundJustin's Unchained Devil form is basically him acting like what he thinks all demons are- Deranged psychos who act charming even as they wanna kill and pervert everything sacred about reality. Justin's Demon is currently stuck in that form, and so his own reaction when briefly an individual again was exaggerated & supercharged. Under normal conditions, he would of basically said "We get it, you hate her, so do something or move on already."
"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."@ Miss_Desperado: Jann's coat has buttons. I'm going for a vaguely 18th-19th century "fancy British gentleman" kind of look with his outfit.
Still a great "screw depression" song even after seven years.Buttons. Duly noted. I used ambiguous phrasing the first time I had Rosalind manipulate them, but now that I know, I can mention buttons the next time she does something to them.
If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.@KillerClowns: in case you're not following the other arcs, Kris - believing Carpenter Squad to be genuine police - has called their attention to the enraged Justin-Demon
threatening the safety and lives of those in the hotel.
It's up to you if they, in order to maintain their pretense, engage or challenge Justin.
In any case, her moral obligation to notify the "appropriate authorities" discharged, Kris will feel justified in taking action to defend herself or others if required. If Kris or any of those in the hotel are attacked, she will shoot-to-stop - two initial rounds to centre-of-mass (torso) with more to follow until the attack is stopped.
This would not necessarily be fatal - and IRL doesn't always stop an attacker from pressing their attack - but the aim is to take the fight out of the attacker and dissuade them from further hostile actions (and since there's the option of magical healing in this setting, probably wouldn't require the extended stay in hospital such shootings cause IRL).
So even though Kris will reluctantly shoot if she has to, she's not actually trying to kill Justin.

P.S. Posted.
edited 31st Mar '18 9:07:39 AM by Millership
Spiral out, keep going.