Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Infinite Factory of Life
Cost: 3m
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Essence 3, Stamina 4
The pay the motes cost to repair a single level of damage. That damage can be bashing or lethal, and the healing takes place in an instant without leaving a scar. Aggravated damage is beyond the power of this Knack to heal. Bruises, lacerations and bullet holes vanish before the astonished onlookers' eyes. This Knack can be used only once every time an attack inflicts damage on the user.
Infinite Factory of Life
Cost: -/2m/4m
Duration: Indefinite/Instant
Prerequisites: Essence: 3, Stamina: 4
This Knack super-charges the dragons healing abilities beyond anything it knew before, at purchase it allows the dragon to heal 1 level of bashing damage every 10 ticks, this increases to 1 level of bashing per 5 ticks or 1 level of lethal per 10 ticks at Essence 4 and 1 level of Bashing per tick and 1 level of Lethal damage per 5 ticks at Essense 5; The Dragon also gains the ability to spend power to enhance his healing to even greater heights, as a reflexive action he may spend 2 motes per level of bashing damage and 4 motes per level of Lethal damage healed, however he may only spend a maximum of Stamina + Resistance per 10 ticks until he gains Essence 4 at which point this cap is removed.
Isn't this a shaping effect? Shouldn't Issei just reflexively activate Integrity Protecting Prana and lolnope it?Alexander said:On the screen robotic arms pop out from the ground around Issei and fire lasers at him. Where they hit a red magic circle forms before fading. Issei drops down as if he suddenly got heavier. "Ehi?! What did you do?"
"Those are special seals that put a great load on your body Hyodo-kun." Azazel cheerfully says in a mike. "Only I can remove them, and they will keep getting heavier as your strength grows. But don't worry, you will get a pause of course. After eight hours of my special training."
By some definitions it could be shaping, but they're most likely hitting him with an effect that applies external penalties to physical actions, which is within the realm of something a non-shaping charm or sorcery could do.Odysseus2099 said:Isn't this a shaping effect? Shouldn't Issei just reflexively activate Integrity Protecting Prana and lolnope it?
How so? I was under the impression "shaping" applied by default to anything that couldn't be blocked in more traditional ways. A non-shaping method could be turning up the gravity, though that would be ignored by environmental defense charms, for example.Smuthunter said:By some definitions it could be shaping, but they're most likely hitting him with an effect that applies external penalties to physical actions, which is within the realm of something a non-shaping charm or sorcery could do.
Right. And Issei got shot by lasers that he could have dodged or blocked but didn't for story purposes.Odysseus2099 said:How so? I was under the impression "shaping" applied by default to anything that couldn't be blocked in more traditional ways.
A punch that knocks out the target's soul, that can be dodged, counts as shaping. Basically, anything that alters the targets stats directly counts as shaping as well.Smuthunter said:Right. And Issei got shot by lasers that he could have dodged or blocked but didn't for story purposes.
By that logic he would have stayed on the ground to tank the explosions and just stood in front of the machine guns. He was nervous before it hit him, and he had no idea what it did. For all he knew, testing his magic resistance might have been the point of the exercise.EternitynChaos said:...or it could simply be a training effect... you know, like it's being used for, no need to make thing more complicated then they need to be, and even if he could no sell the effect, why would he, he's here to train, not to show how awesome he is by lolnoping everything Azazel does
That would probably work, it's just from Azazel's "Those are special seals that put a great load on your body Hyodo-kun." it sounded like they were effecting him directly, not the area around him.Fellgar said:Its probably just anchoring some altered gravity to his person. Not intrinsically a shaping effect that directly effects Issei, therefor it bypasses the Integrity Protecting Prana. Its stated why in the charm itself why issei would be effected by such a thing.
That's quite good Eternity. It's worth a vote:EternitynChaos said:
He probably could have, but after hearing Azazel's explanation Issei decided to not do it since he needs the training. It's like "This is a dick move, but I am going with it anyway because being defiant will make things worse for me".Odysseus2099 said:Isn't this a shaping effect? Shouldn't Issei just reflexively activate Integrity Protecting Prana and lolnope it?