Is there an actual age cap for students?
Like, if a 20 year old showed up with some out of control powers, are they accepted? Put into a special program? Turned away? Something else?
Yes. 20 human years (or equivalent age adjusted for species) is actually it. No, they would not likely be turned away. Depending on the situation a 20 year old might be enrolled as a student for a term to learn to control their abilities.
Or they could get hired as a teacher. And then put on administrative leave until there is no longer a danger of accidentally crushing the students when provoked. Ori's hoping to reach this point sooner rather than later....
There is currently a pilot program in Mentor looking at the possibility of opening a university there for the older folks who need help. But it's still in the early planning stages.
Sent a rough statblock for the new thing I'm working on.
I'll finish fleshing it out if none of the things seem objectionable or out of place ^_^
Thanks for all the answers Lyn! You have a PM waiting for you, which hopefully you can reply to in the next day or two :)
Hey Lyn, found this in my continued read of gameplay:
"I believe they call it Smogra's Syndrome."
Hey Lyn, found this in my continued read of gameplay:
"I believe they call it Smogra's Syndrome."
Yeah, we had a whole discussion about that in this thread after I realized that I had accidentally given it two different names. :)
Ah, I didn't realize you had actually given it two different names, I just you weren't sure which you had settled on.
... You talking bout me?
... You talking bout me?
Who are you, and in reference to what, talking about?
Dave's last post.
Ah, no
I'm referring to a random throw away frog Lycan that I'm inventing for the purpose of this discussion
Sorry for the lack of posts today. It ended up being an awesome but busy day. It was raining, but no thunder, and cool, so basically my favorite kind of weather. So I decided to go run my errands today instead of tomorrow. And then this afternoon the kidlet and I went out puddle jumping, something we haven't really done since he was little. We had a blast and came home soaking wet and exhausted. Turns out puddle jumping is quite a workout! :)
tl;dr No posts today. Posts tomorrow. When I will presumably not be falling over tired.
Anyone here really good with Spheres of Power?
I wish I was. I really like what I've read so far.
How big are the forests around the school?
Decently sized fr forests that weren't around almost 30 years ago. I blame Adsila.
Like a couple of acres? Less than an acre?
Like a couple of acres? Less than an acre?
Quick calculation puts it at somewhere between 500 and 700 acres as drawn on the map. I think it's probably a lot closer to 500 with the way it's shaped.
Edit: Yes, that means that the grounds are much bigger than you realized. :)
Is it common knowledge in Avalon that the Empire is coming to try to exterminate them?
I believe it was announced at the big gathering when the dragons "came out". I think Avalon and Kuros, and possibly Mentor, are all aware.
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Anyone here really good with Spheres of Power?I wish I was. I really like what I've read so far.
Apparently I did character creation correctly. The result can be found in this thread I started to check just that.
And I think I might have found the "dice=" bug culprit. No /dice tag at the end. Even if you don't think you need it, don't leave it off. Better yet don't use dice=. :/
I never use the dice= format. Easier to avoid problems if you just don't use it.
@Lord Foul - Are you talking about the city setting Salt In Wounds?
Whats the bug with dice=?
Whats the bug with dice=?
I've asked people not to use it because it does this thing when you use the reply function where it keeps adding and adding the numbers and the reply post is just a huge block of numbers. And then I have to go back in and edit out the dice line to fix it. It's very annoying, especially if the person replying doesn't catch it because they were in a hurry. So every couple of months I end up asking folks to stop using it because it's disruptive. Or at least this time run some test posts here in discussion to determine if the problem does indeed come from a lack of /dice tag at the end and fix going forward appropriately. If that isn't the problem and it still goes haywire with any dice= than please actually stop using it.
Thus endeth my quarterly post formatting rant. :P
Heh, I don't really understand the problem, exactly, but I guess I'm OK because I always just use the non = roller function and put the relevant info as OOC text after the roll.
Never had a problem that way.
Ex:
So here's what happens.
When you use dice=, everything seems fine.
But when smeone goes to reply to it, the forums will glitch if somone else rolls In the reply unless they go and close the dice=, because it uncloses itself whenever you reply.
For some reason, the unclosed version is handled well be the forums, merely getting ignored, unless you try and roll after-
If you do, It will then interpret everything inbetween the dice= and the new roll as numbers, and create a masive string of numbers based on your text that was between the dice= In the reply, and your closing /dice that was in the post.
This bug can be prevented by either deleting the roll or typing /dice after it.
Ah! See, the whole unclosed dice part was what I was confused about. Obviously if you don't, you don't end up with a result for your roll.
As I never bother to do it that way, and often do not use reply, unless I need to, I never knew about the bug, other than it existed.
Has anybody bothered to let the site staff know?
I simply don't use the dice=. I have seen the mess it can make, and it is too easy to avoid. I also am working on training it out of the people that play the game I am running.
Ok, I'll try to remember that going forward.
I just realized that for all the benefits the neural lace gives, it has a major and glaring weakness. Although it stops magical compulsion and mind control, if he interfaces and establishes a link with an unsecured piece of tech, he could get hacked and mind controlled through technological means.
Now that I have stated it, it cannot be used against me. I am now invincible. :V
Okay, groceries bought and put away, laundry done, dinner done, dishes done, bread baked, and I have like ten whole minutes before I have to leave for my CT scan on my ears. Let's see how many posts I can get up! :)
Ugh.
Meant sighs, but I'm sure you knew that.
Added map to campaign info. Edited some info about teachers and Champions to reflect recent losses.
Now I'm confused again. Is Andromeda or Ephebe the champion of time?
Andromeda. Who is this timeline's Ephebe, I think. Ephebe, headmistress to little folk and mate to Krays, is from a different timeline and raised by a time demon. Again, I think.
Pretty sure Ephebe and Krays are mates. Are they not having a quiet picnic together, right now, talking about their eggs, and what Pheebs is gonna do, not that she's not the Champion of Time?
Meanwhile, Andromeda is on Dave's ship, with Tybalt, talking about David's bday party, and slimy green kids...
Andromeda (née Ephebe Andromeda Sunwake) is the current Champion of Time. She is native to this timeline and grew up with Taron and Jiminy. And then she was sent into another timeline to confront a time demon running amok, and she died. And her spirit kept getting sent into other versions of her in other timelines, all trying to defeat the time demon. And died every time. Until she got rebooted in a version of herself from the next timeline over who had been raised by the time demon (which is why Ephebe refers to the time demon as evil foster mom). With Andromeda's knowledge and Ephebe's abilities they were able to defeat the time demon, with a whole lot of emotional baggage all around. The only person in the multiverse besides herself that Ephebe actually cared about was her brother, Jiminy. And in order to defeat the time demon she had to kill him. Many dozens and dozens of times. This left her crippled from the emotional trauma, and she was basically catatonic. So Andromeda was doing the driving and all she wanted to do was go home. The Ephebe that you see at the beginning of the game if you go back and read the game thread from the beginning is actually Andromeda, in Ephebe's body. Eventually Ephebe woke up, and Andromeda began to fade, and Ephebe was left here on her own. At that time Ephebe was the Champion of Time, but she can't be now. She's disqualified because of what the Patrons made her into. Ephebe is the Headmistress of the elementary school and Krays is her mate. Andromeda was brought back to life specifically to take Ephebe's place as the Champion of Time. Time doesn't like change much. Ironically enough. So Andromeda is physically a year younger than her siblings since she came back at the age she would have been when she died. And she died about a week before she was set to come back for her second year at Avalon. But she was stuck in the time loop with the fighting and the dying for three years worth of subjective time and has all of those memories. With both girls (who are obviously identical due to technically being the same person, although Ephebe has some genetic modifications so they're not really the same anymore) present it would have been too much to have them both called Ephebe, so they agreed between themselves that Andromeda would use their middle name as her first name. To make things easier.
To sum up: Andromeda is the Champion of Time, a current student, and kind of a basket case as she tries to work through some serious issues caused by frequent dying.
Ephebe is the time traveler/ Paradox Engine, the Headmistress of the elementary school, married to Krays, and mom to four little dragons who will hatch in the not too distant future.
Did that clear things up? It's really hard when you're writing a time travel storyline. I've known from page one that there were two of them. And you saw how long it took for that to play out. I'm terrified of how long it will take before the next salient piece of information comes to light. ;P
Lyn, I have just one thing I need cleared up:
When this incarnation of the game began(Back in 2011), was the Ephebe in play Andromeda or Ephebe(time traveler)?
If it was Andromeda, when did the switch take place?
That answers all of the questions that I didn't know I had.
I was more just wondering which was the champion now. X3