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Arch used a magical technique which he claimed would have a cancellation effect on the area, but Tinanitico had shielded herself at the time with an antimagic field. The interactions of magic-destroying magics are very complicated, but under my mechanics, an established antimagic field negates free-cast antimagic magic entering it, and alternate antimagic techniques such as strong runic-based antimagic or nonmagic antimagic must be used to destroy existing antimagic fields; nevertheless, for the sake of avoiding arguement, I settled for more or less a mutual cancellation in which my antimagic field was destroyed, but the effect of his technique upon Tinanitico was almost completely negated. He also posted that his technique had flooded the entire arena with almost suffocating amounts of pure mana.

Tinanitico then began to simply drain the mana from the surrounding air; because of the high concentration of pure mana, she could do so at a very rapid rate, doubling or even tripling her charge amounts (as she had been charging for several posts already). As she did so, Arch prepared to make another attack, and that is when Tinanitico struck.

Several posts before all this, a cloud of dust had begun to move on its own and take shape behind Arch; unknown to Arch, Tinanitico has the ability to shape extra bodies from dust and control them as if they were her own, dividing her energy between herself and them; she can also switch between bodies, making a secondary her main and her main a secondary. This body had been formed and made a primary body, to hide behind Arch and attack him in the back when he left himself open while fighting the original and now-secondary body. Not long before then, the dust had dropped into a chasm which had been formed in an earlier exchange of attacks so that Arch would not see it reform into a complete body and start actively drawing in energy (I made several allusions to this even after it was out of Arch's sight, such as her "contracting energy between two focuses" as she created the antimagic area, and drawing in mana around her "primary physical body").

Then Arch performed an attack, and Tinanitico smoked him in the back with a beam five feet wide with inconsistent strength (she had been charging for three posts, plus she had two to five extra posts worth of charge from all the mana she took in). I don't really remember what his contentions are, so you'll have to PM him to get him in here; I don't particularly mind winning that battle by time-out if need be, it's damned annoying because he doesn't understand anything; even after a bit of PM debate, he still doesn't get anything related to the second-body plan. Even OOCly, he never noticed the dust cloud or anything.

You misunderstood things, but I don't blame you as it's pretty complex. I'll produce drawings to better show what was happening.

Oh yeah, and I remember now that when Arch started bitching, it came out that despite the fact that he'd used his desperation move earlier in the match and had been reduced to almost zero power (his post on the 20th of July, direct quote "Though it had saved his life, the technique had spent too much of his chi, to the point where he was dangerously close to death."), when he spontaneously changed forms at the end of that post and the beginning of his next post due to being about to lose, his power apparently got recharged right back up to PAST full. I'd like to see a ruling on this too; the reason I hadn't brought it up earlier is that I had assumed it was simply a short-duration desperation form which would carry out a couple of high-strength attacks then fall.

Everything I said in the earlier post stands.


Do more than drawing a picture of what I already commented on.




edit: A quick look back at it shows that with the mistaken use of one word, the meaning can be entirely different.

- The clone was created before the anti magic barrier.
- The kaboom that took down the barrier happened afterwards.
- Then followed the mana absorbtion.
- Then followed all else.

Is this series of events correct? Initially I had read it as the clone was created after the barrier dispersal, and had errected another barrier around itself. In that situation, everything I had said would stand.

If the situation is as I just bullet-pointed, however, and there was no second anti-magic barrier, I have a feeling Arch just got railed.

However, don't forget what I said in regards to the 'primary body'.

Maybe it's just semantics, but when someone can be in two places at once, that bangs up the 'no teleportation' rule.


Toeing the line. I'm just saying to take a step back so you don't go over.

It's because I'm up against a lot of stupid people.