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Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50824 is a reply to message #41907 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 00:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Or somehow ends up on the wrong side of Centi-grab. Very Happy
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50834 is a reply to message #50792 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 05:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Angarato wrote on Tue, 03 January 2012 17:12
Another thing. With a phrase like this: "My eyes glimmered with hope and grand expansive dreams of a wedgie-less learning environment." There'll just have to be a moment where Josie gets a wedgie in some way Very Happy. Maybe even lots of wedgies Razz.

Considering her planar travel abilities she has to worry about Negative Space Wedgie Very Happy
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50852 is a reply to message #41907 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 12:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Josie doesn't know it but Teleportation can be a gruesome power to go against.

From teleporting only part of someone away, or teleporting part of some THING Class X'y onto someone back here to the "Upeo Death Drop" teleporting someone into space or the heart of a star or Hawaii...inside the magma chamber.

Teleporting a blade or even a blunt object into someone's body or teleporting the heart out.

I'm not saying he would ever do such things, (Waits for Josie to stop barfing and Elcia to stop pondering) but I think they would be possible.

At most I can see Josie using teleportation as a form of welding in shop class. Or replacing Peeper's Mic with a sea cucumber from ^%($E ^&R UYÆVLþY Minor.



~Despite what they say, reality is in the eyes of the beholder, and therefore up for grabs!
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50886 is a reply to message #50852 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 19:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dpragan wrote on Wed, 04 January 2012 18:55
Josie doesn't know it but Teleportation can be a gruesome power to go against.

From teleporting only part of someone away, or teleporting part of some THING Class X'y onto someone back here to the "Upeo Death Drop" teleporting someone into space or the heart of a star or Hawaii...inside the magma chamber.

Teleporting a blade or even a blunt object into someone's body or teleporting the heart out.

I'm not saying he would ever do such things, (Waits for Josie to stop barfing and Elcia to stop pondering) but I think they would be possible.

At most I can see Josie using teleportation as a form of welding in shop class. Or replacing Peeper's Mic with a sea cucumber from ^%($E ^&R UYÆVLþY Minor.


Well, Fey has teleported that stealth-implant/Class-X-drug-pump out of Merry, Ayla has trained to avoid doing it by accident with her phasing, Generator suggested Ayla to avoid fights by dropping a piece of concrete inside his opponent stomach, Bluejay used his teleportation to do a number with the rooks in the Halloween Battle, Murphy did the same by accident with her own arm and threatened to do the same with Kodiak's scrotum... so yes, maybe you are right.
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50888 is a reply to message #41907 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 19:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Well, to do something like that she'll need to get more accurate with her teleportation than "arriving somewhere in the same county as the target" first. Well, unless she's going for an effect that can span an entire county, I guess. Smile

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Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50895 is a reply to message #50888 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 20:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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It would depend on the mechanism of the teleport. If it opens a wormhole and then you step through it might just not work if there's too much mass on the other side. Or it might swap places, or force the offending matter out of the way, or who knows what?
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50900 is a reply to message #41907 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 21:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Or course "leaving" with something might be easier then returning with something.



~Despite what they say, reality is in the eyes of the beholder, and therefore up for grabs!
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50902 is a reply to message #50900 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 21:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dpragan wrote on Wed, 04 January 2012 21:03
Or course "leaving" with something might be easier then returning with something.


Like that ONE Josie keeps on dropping.
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50912 is a reply to message #41907 ] Wed, 04 January 2012 23:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm pretty sure Susan is a Paladin, am I right? She doesn't hear voices or anything, if she were an Avatar she would--and would probably know who her spirit (Freya?) is.
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50921 is a reply to message #50912 ] Thu, 05 January 2012 03:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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GuesssWho wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 06:21
I'm pretty sure Susan is a Paladin, am I right? She doesn't hear voices or anything, if she were an Avatar she would--and would probably know who her spirit (Freya?) is.


We don't actually know how Suzan gets her ice powers. She could be a TK with cryokinesis and the visions of nordic woman are simply symbolic dreamspace representations of her mother issues and powerset. She could be an avatar in denial, actively suppressing her spirit until "giving in" during that fire. We don't know.
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50923 is a reply to message #50852 ] Thu, 05 January 2012 05:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dpragan wrote on Wed, 04 January 2012 18:55
[spacial Warping teleport abuse]

I'm not saying he would ever do such things, (Waits for Josie to stop barfing and Elcia to stop pondering) but I think they would be possible.

No, I don't think so.

Josh's power is very much not the generic Warper teleport power.
It's more like the ability to travel along paths that ignore the usual distance limitations by using unusual dimensions. So more like opening portals, or pathfinding in a inter-dimensional labyrinth.

Teleporting others seems dubious (more like dragging someone along the way) and certainly not breaking solid matter cohesion.

One marked advantage would be the capacity to bring a lot of people or volume of matter with him. Although most people going along with Josh would likely go mad as a result.
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50924 is a reply to message #50912 ] Thu, 05 January 2012 05:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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GuesssWho wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 05:21
I'm pretty sure Susan is a Paladin, am I right? She doesn't hear voices or anything, if she were an Avatar she would--and would probably know who her spirit (Freya?) is.
No. Many Avatar don't hear voices either. Just look at Aquerna and Mongoose for example.

Actually, a Paladin is MORE likely to hear voices, since the process is more consciously deliberate from the spirit's part, and more akin to communication than communion, compared to the regular one.
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50934 is a reply to message #50900 ] Thu, 05 January 2012 08:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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dpragan wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 03:03
Or course "leaving" with something might be easier then returning with something.

A tentacle monster out of the toilet seems to disprove you. Very Happy
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50941 is a reply to message #50923 ] Thu, 05 January 2012 14:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Nicky82 wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 07:58
dpragan wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 03:03
Or course "leaving" with something might be easier then returning with something.

A tentacle monster out of the toilet seems to disprove you. Very Happy


That was internal hehehe. Razz


Sojiro wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 04:52
dpragan wrote on Wed, 04 January 2012 18:55
[spacial Warping teleport abuse]

I'm not saying he would ever do such things, (Waits for Josie to stop barfing and Elcia to stop pondering) but I think they would be possible.

No, I don't think so.

Josh's power is very much not the generic Warper teleport power.
It's more like the ability to travel along paths that ignore the usual distance limitations by using unusual dimensions. So more like opening portals, or pathfinding in a inter-dimensional labyrinth.

Teleporting others seems dubious (more like dragging someone along the way) and certainly not breaking solid matter cohesion.

One marked advantage would be the capacity to bring a lot of people or volume of matter with him. Although most people going along with Josh would likely go mad as a result.


Lets see, reality warping Mathematics isn't warping?



~Despite what they say, reality is in the eyes of the beholder, and therefore up for grabs!
Re: I looked into the Abyss and it winked [message #50944 is a reply to message #50941 ] Thu, 05 January 2012 15:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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dpragan wrote on Thu, 05 January 2012 19:46
Lets see, reality warping Mathematics isn't warping?
It might be classified as some sort of magic. It might be considered that Josie's abilities seem to be about revealing and understanding the truth of reality on some level, rather than changing it. Of course, the truth of reality is that understanding or perceiving it tends to drive normal people mad. Smile

I should think that Josie might well be able to gain some understanding of those papers Sara wrote that so annoyed the science (and maths?) department(s), and maybe learning Pattern Theory might help her with her abilities, too?
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