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Alright, I'll do that, Pei.

Edit: You really ought to just let it go and have your object hit the guy. He completely disregarded your post, random sniper or not.

By the way, if everyone could, check out the match on this page. The last five posts are in question, three of Binatica's, two of Arch's. Binatica says that her character is a magic expert, just as pure if not more pure than Arch, and so she can both override and deal with the weapon's defenses as they come and still focus on unleashing her own spells to destroy the weapon. Arch, on the other hand, says it makes her unpure because she's striking down the weapon in the first place, and he's basically accusing her of speedhacking or godmoding by being able to deal with the sudden trigger of defense while focusing/casting her spells, which he says the weapon's defense is supposed to come before.

I won't say what I think about it yet, but a few other opinions would be nice.

noooooooooo...

-falls into a void-

clash, tell my opponent that i'm not breaking any rules so he can stop stalling plz. like, pm because he won't believe otherwise and i doubt he backreads.

I understand, Pei, just wanted to make sure you want to go on. What I'll do is delete the sniper's post and his portal post, then PM him to respond to your attack.

X, I just PM'd him about that.

Clarifications on my part:

She's in my top tier of characters, the "Circle of Potential Gods/Goddesses", the product of my first real storylines built around Gel. Though much about them can be inferred just from that, they're all former mortals. In her first life, Tinanitico was a scientist, studying the origins and behaviors of magic. And out of all the members of the Circle, she's got the most power and control and intelligence, though she's also got particularly stubborn mental issues and a lack of real combat experience. Speaking of real combat experience, she doesn't have any - every fight she's been in has been at the urging of another member of the Circle, and she hasn't yet killed anyone. In fact, since she's relatively peaceful, this is the first established fight against a mortal she's been in, and while there's a lot of unfilled blank space in her backstory, fighting doesn't fit her personality so there'd be very little of it if any no matter how things go.

As a result of her knowledge and intrinsic affiliations (areas in which her abilities are strongest and most natural), she's got the most direct control over magic, and is currently the only member of the Circle who can do things like directly cast antimagic spells or directly attack a spell at its component parts - and, speaking of which, Smiling-Jak is incorrect. There's a few basics to all magic - for instance, there's always some underlying power fueling it, and it's that power that should be targeted if you're planning to attack magic at its core. That's why I tell Ertai that mechanics don't matter so much - in both magic and psionics, there are certain simple things common to all members of an ability category, and it is those which should be attacked. Anyway, Arch's character is a mostly-melee character whose magical skill is only at the level of weak chi manipulation, so it's a faceoff between Tinanitico and the weapon. Physical items rarely store enough mana to fight off a mage, and without magic-defense powers of its own, Arch's polearm (no, it's not a zanbato, that arose from a misunderstanding in which he used weapon names from a videogame and didn't check his facts) wouldn't have a chance - especially since Tinanitico annihilated it physically and magically at the same time. Its only defense is to attack Tinanitico back - and that won't work, all the members of the Circle are high-power incorporeal beings linked to physical form, and assaulting their life energy tends to be very inefficient as they have a lot of it and are skilled at conserving it and stalling attempts to consume it.

Really, this doesn't even affect me that much, as I haven't yet revealed to Arch she's not human (though he'll find out if he reads the thread); if everything's ruled in favor of him, I'll just cut the arm and that part of her presence, and use the spell energy for something else.

(This post will probably be edited out in a few hours to prevent Arch from seeing; if you'd like a copy of it after that time, PM me)

I wounder who would win? A black mage or a white mage?

Ya, I agree, but was just woundering. The fight could end up in so many ways.

The red mage?

if going strict with the mage types and magics and with no subclasses under the other magic type, the only offensive attack a white mage has is holy. if they're heretic, they might wanna learn dark holy. the black mage is nothing but offense and status. so... it'll be a battle of who has the best mp count- who's the last person to heal/attack. and not only that, the black mages are stronger than white mage, magic power-ly.

in melee, there are tons of magical staves to use... pearl rod liek whut.

i love me a white mage. but they'd get their asses handed to them.