[FWM] OOC 4: Enchanted Manticore

[TheAmishPirate]

A place to discuss OOC ideas about the MLP Friendship is was Magic RP.

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Q: How dark is this RP?
A: Somewhere below 'Happy Sunshine Fun Land' and above 'Hopeless'. Happy endings are the bulk of life, but the possibility always exists for a sad ending. Darkness also runs rampant across the world and is always lurking outside the safe walls of town.

Q: What is the tech level?
A: I think the general consensus is 'Steampunk' right now. There may be occasional alien technology influence as well.

Q: What is the general policy on weapons?
A: Equestria is an armed society right now. Every military member, including the common town guards, carries a potentially lethal weapon with them everywhere, even off duty. Even civilian ponies are commonly seen carrying weapons. However, it is standard practice to never draw your weapon unless you intend to use it. Drawing a weapon, for whatever reason, is considered a hostile act by most ponies.

Q: How dangerous is the town of Bridle Shores?
A: Interesting question. The town has seen much more than its fair share of action and odd occurrences over the years since its founding, and no one can say why this is. Skirmishes with monsters at one or more town entrances happen almost daily, and certain loud noises are common enough that they no longer enough by themselves to induce a panic in any town resident. That said, the Town Guard and Militia are good at what they do, and few things are a high enough threat level to greatly disrupt life in the town for long. In D&D terms, this is a town where your neighbor is likely to have one or more levels in a PC class.

Q: How are threats classified?
A: Threat Ranks (guidelines):

F-Rank - Helpless. No threat at all.
E-Rank - Mild threat. Only about as dangerous as an average civilian.
D-Rank - Competent combatant. Not something a pony could be expected to defeat without combat training.
C-Rank - Dangerous combatant. Not something your average soldier could defeat reliably.
B-Rank - Highly dangerous. Defeating something like this is what makes your average heroes. Super-Mook/Sub-Boss/Early Boss status.
A-Rank - Extremely dangerous. 'You and what army?' is no longer a joke at this point. Big Sub-Boss/Late Boss status.
A-Rank+ - Army Killers, unofficial ranking. No official is really willing to admit that such dangers even exist at all. End boss status.

Q: Where is the Roleplay thread?
A: There's a link to it right below.

Q: Where can I post my character and find info on existing characters and backstory?
A: There's a link to that below too.

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There really aren't any pony names that rhyme with 'four' and fit my punny convention.

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Background Information, Noble Houses, and other assorted tidbits.

Character Profiles.

[Grif]

*cough* Links needs to be updated.

[PurityIcekiller]

Heeey, nice title!

[Benson]

Obligatory post goes here.


But yes, sentient shot gun of snarkiness, it must return. *stare*

[Grif]

Obligatory post goes here.


But yes, sentient shot gun of snarkiness, it must return. *stare*

When it does return, it will be considerably snarkier.

(Think Andy the bomb from RvB.)

[Orzel]

You know what FWM needs?


crying

*dumps misery on Sandy*

[Grif]

Truly a deadly weapon.

[Luka]

You know what FWM needs?


crying

*dumps misery on Sandy*

Again?
"Hey I didn't cry so much!"

[MCerberus]

Wait, we have misery on Sandy and lots of very odd couples going around pretending to be normal?

Must be a day that ends in 'y'

[Benson]

Now we just need a scene of Sandy having a moment platonic comfort from Miss M and Rainbow walking in under the guise of trying to talk to him about their relationship issues and then misinterpret the scene and then blow it out of proportion./run-on


Because this wouldn't be the soap opera it is without convoluted messes.

[Grif]

Now we just need a scene of Sandy having a moment platonic comfort from Miss M and Rainbow walking in under the guise of trying to talk to him about their relationship issues and then misinterpret the scene and then blow it out of proportion./run-on


Because this wouldn't be the soap opera it is without convoluted messes.

Do eeeeeeeeeeeeett!

[Orzel]

Now we just need a scene of Sandy having a moment platonic comfort from Miss M and Rainbow walking in under the guise of trying to talk to him about their relationship issues and then misinterpret the scene and then blow it out of proportion./run-on


Because this wouldn't be the soap opera it is without convoluted messes.

funny stuff. Must be done.

[Benson]

I'mma be frank and honest here kelvin. You have put me in a bind I do not want to be in.

*I* don't want Gearstride to have such easy access to magical limb growing magic. I want her to go through that spiel of adjusting to her new injury and having reminder of that crappy night. Hell, I find a robo leg more better anyways because she'll also have a reminder of that night.

As opposed to having her hoof grown back rendering what she went through rather forgettable and blah and who cares and all that stuff.

But.

It doesn't make sense for *her*in game to not opt for that since it has been presented to her. There is no explainable reason for her to say no to something like that >_<

[PurityIcekiller]

I think I can help get you out of that bind. A normal robo-hoof wouldn't have a lot to it, but Night Jewel could offer one with special features of some kind. She has a good reason to want Gearstride's hoof replaced with a prosthetic, since it'll be more interesting for her and keep her from getting into as much trouble.

[TheAmishPirate]

I do kinda have to agree with Benson here; having the ability to recover from any type of bodily damage does tend to remove what few dramatic consequences severe injury has left. I didn't say anything about this before because...well, to be honest, I have no idea why I put this off as long as I did. Likely a combination of finals, IRL stress, and other such things. You have my apologies there, I dropped the ball big time.

Now then, a way to resolve this: What sort of limitations might this regeneration magic have? Could something be done in such a way to render the process too long/too painful/risky? Not in every case, mind you, but having situations where Taylor can't automatically heal up the injury would be good. Combine that with coolness factor of robo-hoof, and the prosthetic may seem the wiser choice.

EDIT: Something I feel I should clarify: I don't think Taylor has to give up the limb-regrowing. For somepony whose entire skillset revolves around cleric-type healing, a spell/treatment like this seems a worthy testament to his years of experience and training. All I'm saying is that there needs to be necessary leeway, a bit of risk that could come with the spell so that players can have their ponies retain permanent injuries for dramatic/personal story reasons if need be. Something to keep him from turning into a "Fix all problems and remove all consequences given enough healing time" button.

Heck, Sandy gets beaten up horribly and recovers enough as it is. Need to keep some level of injury that has meaning.

[Kelvin360]

Oh, you guys don't have to worry about too much.

There are two factors I can list immediately that will mean that no, Gearstride and Silverpine won't get their limbs back just like that:

A) Taylor both has to ask for permission to do something that major (giving one a solid opportunity to say 'eeh, nah'), and most likely won't anyways, because he feels the need to conserve as much of his energy as possible until something apocalyptic happens.

B) Team Sollunus runs on rule of cool. Like hay they're gonna stand around and give you a lame old regular hoof when you can get a mechanical appendage!

Now to answer Amish's questions directly as I can, which include some additional pieces.

First off, there's the numero uno of the regenerative process knocking Taylor the buck out. Limbzoning honestly isn't remotely as casual as the 'hey, we're cool' duo make it sound. Even a section of an ear is taxing, nevermind, say, a leg.

As well, the regrown appendage that comes back, while it belongs to the same body, isn't the same appendage. Thusly, phantom limb and killer limb (feeling pains/sensations that aren't actually occurring and your body part doing things your brain isn't actually telling it to do, even though I've probably forgotten the correct terms) likely apply.

Also, while this isn't directly related to horrendous injuries, I will note that no matter how much healing energy you pool into something, bad wounds can and will scar. In fact the expediency makes it more likely.

More ideas to play with -

*You can only grow back things that have been lost semi-naturally. Swords are fine, dark magic is not.
*Sometimes the experience is so traumatizing for the unconscious center of the brain that the body will instinctively refuse the process.
*It hurts. A lot. For those familiar with Harry Potter's Skele-gro process, this kind of works on the same principle. Taylor's life energy is involved, but the patient's body has to supply nutrients and raw materials, plus some magic of their own. Thus: Dip in acid, lethargy, and malnutrition.

One more thing. Despite the brief exchange, it isn't unreasonable to assume that Gearstride simply forgot one random bit of information during a stressful situation. It also isn't unreasonable for Taylor simply to not pester her about it.

[TheAmishPirate]

^Another thing I thought of that might make the process...less than pleasant. The vamponies used their wound-closing saliva junk on Gear's hoof, effectively cauterizing the wound. If Taylor were to re-grow the limb, then he'd probably need to open all that up again.

[Kelvin360]

Ah, I forgot about that. That'd make the process entirely impossible, then. Vampony saiva qualifies as a magical substance, so it'd interfere with the other magics involved.

[PurityIcekiller]

Benson, are you going to post for the Cirrus, or have you been waiting for me?

[Benson]

I've been waiting on you since Night Jewel was asked a question directly.
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@Kelvin & Amish


See, reading those posts sets me at ease. I had no previous knowledge of what the *rules* of his abilities entailed, so of course, I jumped to my uncomfortable place the way I did. But this is better.

[PurityIcekiller]

Oh, okay. Sorry. I was just trying to make sure you didn't get left behind.

[Orzel]

Poll:

If I were to incorporate Sugar into this world, how should she exist?

As a puppy
As an adult dog
As a wolf cub
As an adult wolf
As a timberwolf
As a pony foal
As an adult pony
As a weapon
Sugar is dead, already
Sugar is a hallucination

[Grif]

Maximum lulz and soap opera to be had is she was a ghost dog.



Also, is Sandy and Miss M thing a go? If so, I'll delay my next post about Rainbow et al.

[TheAmishPirate]

Maximum lulz and soap opera to be had is she was a ghost dog.



Also, is Sandy and Miss M thing a go? If so, I'll delay my next post about Rainbow et al.

Delay for now, need to chat some things over with Benson, haven't had a chance to today.

[PurityIcekiller]

Sugar? Who's that?

[TheAmishPirate]

Sugar? Who's that?

Grills' puppy from the lite RP.

[TheAmishPirate]

Maximum lulz and soap opera to be had is she was a ghost dog.



Also, is Sandy and Miss M thing a go? If so, I'll delay my next post about Rainbow et al.

Yeah, I think we'll be doing it. Rainbow's latest post still makes sense, as she's basically walking into the room blind.

[Grif]

Yeah, I think we'll be doing it. Rainbow's latest post still makes sense, as she's basically walking into the room blind.

Alright. Will be waiting for yours (and Benson's) post before continuing.

[Luka]

Anyone still remembers the captured dark warrior who's still angry in the guardhouse's cell? Given what just happened in the alley, no guard's going to start questioning or doing stuff?

[Orzel]

Was that the signal?