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It wasnt psy crystal or even astral crystal, a mind blade as i understand it is an ectoplasmic thought construct.

Organtrix is his mind blade, and it was what took the form of the rapier if i remember the fight correctly.

A mind blade only resembles crystal, and doesnt even necessarily have to resemble that from what I have read.

At any rate it can mimic all the necessary traits including flexibility needed to recreate a weapon with no moving parts.

Tres was against an abnormally short spear for the first third of the fight. Then it pretty much transitioned to him being against a gladius. At least, a broad-bladed shortsword that was abnormally heavy.

Vintrict might have meant the rapier vs shortsword part.

People give Vintrict a hard time when he does s**t to warrant it. That's how the world works: you do something stupid, chances are someone is going to go "Hey, that was ******** stupid." That's how it is for everybody, we make mistakes and someone else tells us so. What's more important is how we react to it; we can either learn, or we can put our head in a hole like an ostrich.

I think for some people Vin has become a sort of easy target for blame, that's true, but on the flipside.. he's also spent the past two years or so basically shooting himself in the foot in more ways than I or anyone else has time to enumerate, so a lot of people are understandably wary of him. And weary, probably.

Last year, a majority of the usual participants didn't come back. Or, rather, they did, and when they had had enough they left in droves, requiring Vintrict to set the tournament on the backburner for several months until he could recruit again and run at more or less half-mast.

I don't think it has to do with letting anything go, so much as if people have a poor experience with somebody, it's going to shape their opinion. Especially if the person in question has the opportunity to change and doesn't.

Like I said, it basically boils down to how badly Vin ******** up, and how badly people respond to it..but that's true of any tournament, or any person. If you run an event, part of your success is going to come from your performance. If you run an event poorly, your support base is going to dwindle. That's just a fact. It'll shrink and shrink.. and if someone else pops up with a similar, yet better run event, then you might find yourself with NO support base.

I mean, yeah, a person can run an event however they want, but sometimes that includes running said event right into the ground.

You have major points that make sense.

I bow to your greater wisdom of such things.

*tips hat to*

Id love to continue that train of thought, but you just... well you hit every major point that needed to be said in a way that ended the conversation abruptly.

I am actually somewhat speechless in awe.

Yeah. It's a 10lbs sword that can chop through anything, so it had a pretty easy time with the rapier. Made even easier by the fact that it was a straight downwards chop on the rapier because it was stuck in the kid's chest.


I don't want to like... assign fault or pick at the fight. It was really good and Sieg is one of the best opponents you could hope to have in this thing. I know my side of the fight wasn't perfect, and he afforded me a couple of thing he didn't have to. That went both ways though I think, which built a better scene overall.

Nazareth

Tres's Mind Blade has evolved along with him and doesn't need to be manifested before a fight. It simply exist as a part of his being.

KB

Dude our fight was awesome, I enjoyed it and I think you deserved the win.

My problem is that vintrict should apologize for his asinine judging and pretending like this tournament isn't just him telling us who he likes more.

My biggest issue with Vintrict as a person though is that, I have been roleplaying with him for years, I have been roleplaying around him for even longer.

I have never once seen him ever admit to being wrong. Not in any of our interactions. I damn sure have never seen him apologize for anything.

I don't think Vintrict is capable of admitting that he is wrong about anything for any reason.

Saw the net....kinda made me pull up quick with a WTH.

I could probably go into a argument with you on how a crystal arm acting like a regular arm would be problematic based on the idea of your talking about the physical properties of CRYSTAL here and not flesh. At the very least, I personally would expect there to be a slight but noticeable difference in movement and speed between the actual arm and the crystalline one based on the simple fact of that crystals are made of a s**t ton of right angles and making it being able to bend and "curve" like normal flesh is completely asinine. You'd be grinding crystal against crystal all the damn time trying to make some arm movements, no matter how small you made the individual crystals.

But we're talking magic here, so you'd know best wouldn't you?

I always hated morphic materials.

Too easily to be abused, in my opinion. One minute it's soft as a babies bottom, the next second hard enough to block a HEAT round with no injuries. And then bam back to softness.

Not saying that example has anything to do with you.

Just using it as an example

Crystal is what it looks like on a superficial level.

However its not crystal as we understand it in reality. Technically it is astral material held into our reality by psionic energy. The same stuff that Astral Constructs are made of. Tres's arm is usually really smooth however depending on his mood, it can become more jagged and crystalline.

but I'd like to hear more on your ideas about morphic materials.