Virtual War Observation Deck

[Pixelmage]

Genndy... Lost... Again.
I... Don't know what to think...

[Victin]

About my lastest post:

• I summoned Atlas' powers, which in turn leaves Ouranus about to fall upon Gaia. The side-effect of taking some of Atlas powers make the heavens about to fall upon the land, and what is currently happening in the battlefield is that Ouranus himself is standing over it, streching his fingers (which in turn are made of wind, but since they are the body of a god, Mimsy can't control any of those maelstroms, and I doubt he can fight their powers over the wind) around the battlefield, generating a vacuum on it. The air will "slowly" be brought out of it in all directions. And while we are on the subject, those eyes are basically in the edge of the thermosphere (that's why they look so small), with his forehead in the exosphere. If he were to eat you he could do that within a second, even with his head far away (this is mostly a "fun" fact). Oh, and I think I forgot to mention, because Goliath is immune to all of this, but the atmospheric pressure is way higher, but since there's a giant vacuum going on it will "slowly" go away;
• All of Gaia's power that was just here? It is very deep underground (as in, the center of the Earth)and out of the battlefield, as in the part of the forest that wasn't destroyed. It still hates Borogove and it still wants to destroy him. But it won't because differently from Ouranus, Gaia is deep down the earth. Actually as her power goes udnerground, it gets stronger because of what I just said;
• Finally, it's not like Goliath will start ninja hopping around, even though he can. He will keep that energy to karate smash Mimsy in case him moves closer to Goliath, and of course, almost in a soundwall breaking speed, or even breaking it for Titans' sake XD

[Lordxana0]

Championship match

Pixel vs. Endless Sea

Winner take all in a fight to the death over control of the City of the Unsleeping Dead

Unless Endless or Pxiel use their denial power. Then the fight will be announced later today.

[Endless Sea]

I'm totally gonna pull a Deep Dive here, if Pixel's willing to oblige. Don't expect me to throw my spear, though. :P

[AMimsyBorogove]

So, let me get this straight. You've sealed off the battlefield by summoning a god, which has also served to buff you while hindering me - in theory. Except, this wind, being divine, is a manifestation of existence and reality (warping) in the form of a godly concept. So, although I can't control it since it's being manipulated by a physical god, it still won't reach me through my air barrier simply because within the domain of my sword, reality does not apply. Same with the air pressure and such, which is just a normal concept of reality.

Or is the god even doing anything? From what I can tell, he's just sitting there chillin' in the sky.

[Victin]

So, let me get this straight. You've sealed off the battlefield by summoning a god, which has also served to buff you while hindering me - in theory. Except, this wind, being divine, is a manifestation of existence and reality (warping) in the form of a godly concept. So, although I can't control it since it's being manipulated by a physical god, it still won't reach me through my air barrier simply because within the domain of my sword, reality does not apply. Same with the air pressure and such, which is just a normal concept of reality.

Or is the god even doing anything? From what I can tell, he's just sitting there chillin' in the sky.

As I said over there (second post in the page) he is just laying his hand over the battlefield... because his hand is bigger than the battlefield, but what matters here is that he is just the side-effect of my ability, and said side-effect is effectively creating a vacuum the size of our combat area. That means you'll get out of air, for both your wind magic and your breathing. And you can't control that wind because it's not "air", it is the "flesh" of a god. He is not reality warping anything. He's just using some weak wind magic. Weak for him, for us it would be just like an H-bomb. Or worse. Probably worse, as he is creating a giant vacuum. In the meantime, strong winds everywher-wait a minute... If I'm immune to enviromental effects shouldn't I be immune to your wind?

[AMimsyBorogove]

As I said. As a god, he's an embodiment of a concept of nature. In his case, wind, since that's what his body is made up of in semi-tangible form. Because he's not directly attacking me with that concept, I can't leech off of it, but, at the same time, he can't reach across realities and take the air from inside the domain of my sword, where only my laws of physics apply, and not those of reality, due to my elemental concepts. Although he could try, that would just result in me getting a link to him, so if I added an air drain concept, I could use that method to begin absorbing his power, too, because then he'd be directly bridging the gap between my sword's reality and his own, which otherwise I couldn't manipulate. So, in short, I still have a bubble of air so long as I stay within the domain of my sword, where his vacuum also won't and can't affect me.

As for environmental affects, A: I'm not attacking you or otherwise affecting you directly with wind, and B: once I assimilate control of it, it ceases being an environmental affect and becomes magic, so nope.

[Victin]

As I said. As a god, he's an embodiment of a concept of nature. In his case, wind, since that's what his body is made up of in semi-tangible form. Because he's not directly attacking me with that concept, I can't leech off of it, but, at the same time, he can't reach across realities and take the air from inside the domain of my sword, where only my laws of physics apply, and not those of reality, due to my elemental concepts. Although he could try, that would just result in me getting a link to him, so if I added an air drain concept, I could use that method to begin absorbing his power, too, because then he'd be directly bridging the gap between my sword's reality and his own, which otherwise I couldn't manipulate. So, in short, I still have a bubble of air so long as I stay within the domain of my sword, where his vacuum also won't and can't affect me.

As for environmental affects, A: I'm not attacking you or otherwise affecting you directly with wind, and B: once I assimilate control of it, it ceases being an environmental affect and becomes magic, so nope.

Wait, you can't beat a god. Taking air from him would be the same as beating him. And he ins't the concept of wind. He's the concept of ATMOSPHERE. And even if you have a bubble of air, it's carbon di/monoxide ;P

[AMimsyBorogove]

Atmosphere is still a concept of reality. Therefore, it has no effect on my sword's alternate reality. Just sayin'.

As I said, I can only take the air from him if he effectively sets it in my lap and says "Here, bro. Look at all this power I have here," by bridging the gap between realities and trying to reach into my sword's domain. It's the same as with Gaia. My sword is like a hole in reality, through which only a certain amount of power can seep at once. If he tries to overwhelm my sword and rip away the bubble of air I have sealed within its reality, then and only then can I begin leeching off of his power. Essentially, it's like I'm hiding behind an impassible boundary that separates his reality and mine, and the only gap in this boundary is a tiny hole through which he can poke a fraction of, say, his pinky toe's nail. At that point, however, he's in my reality, and I can take that tiny fraction of his power, which is rendered impotent by the lack of a natural concept to back his existence up, and steal it. Of course, he immediately recreates that power without cost to himself the same moment he loses it, but I can still keep on yoinking his pinky toenail for the rest of eternity, and all those pinky toenails eventually add to up quite a bit.

[Victin]

Atmosphere is still a concept of reality. Therefore, it has no effect on my sword's alternate reality. Just sayin'.

As I said, I can only take the air from him if he effectively sets it in my lap and says "Here, bro. Look at all this power I have here," by bridging the gap between realities and trying to reach into my sword's domain. It's the same as with Gaia. My sword is like a hole in reality, through which only a certain amount of power can seep at once. If he tries to overwhelm my sword and rip away the bubble of air I have sealed within its reality, then and only then can I begin leeching off of his power. Essentially, it's like I'm hiding behind an impassible boundary that separates his reality and mine, and the only gap in this boundary is a tiny hole through which he can poke a fraction of, say, his pinky toe's nail. At that point, however, he's in my reality, and I can take that tiny fraction of his power, which is rendered impotent by the lack of a natural concept to back his existence up, and steal it. Of course, he immediately recreates that power without cost to himself the same moment he loses it, but I can still keep on yoinking his pinky toenail for the rest of eternity, and all those pinky toenails eventually add to up quite a bit.

That's a good way to piss a god off. Either way, you gonna get out of air soon, and he can't get any more closer. If he gets, it undermines the whole reason why Atlas holds him and, well... I don't think anyone but a god could survive the impact. So because rules he can't get any closer. He could use his fingers to attack 'ya, but as he isn't doing this now I don't think he will do this later.

But you did read my explanation up there, didn't you? (the second post)

[AMimsyBorogove]

Well, firstly, I don't even have an air absorption concept, so it wouldn't work anyway unless I created one. Secondly, I did read your explanation, but as you said, he's the embodiment of the atmosphere, and as I said, that's a concept firmly grounded in reality. But, on the other hand, my soul doesn't HAVE an atmosphere. No such concept exists there. Thus, so long as I stay within my sword's domain - I.E., inside my own soul - he can't affect that air which I have within that domain, because it doesn't count as the same concept, and, on top of that, is part of an entirely separate reality from the one he currently occupies and has power over. So, I can still breathe with impunity, but if my barrier ever breaks, then the boundary breaks with it, so he can suck out all that air. Basically, if you hit me hard enough to break the barrier, I die of suffocation about 20 seconds - I'd say one turn, probably - later. But only if you hit me. On the other hand, if I survive long enough to fire my Limit Break, everything becomes explodey.

[Endless Sea]

Fun fact: that last line of my most recent post is a reference to a Bleach meme, wherein Mugetsu is summed up as "Fuck up everything in that direction." And by "fuck up", they mean "kill the crap out of". It's also probably a subconscious reference (as in, I didn't remember the line at the time) to the following Freeza comment from Dragon Ball Z Abridged: "I own you! I own your planet! I own this planet! In fact-" *world-destroying death ball* "F*CK THIS PLANET!"

That bit about "oh no, not again", on the other hand, is reference to a sort of black comedy running gag-ish idea for Alaki in the canon he comes from- specifically, that sort of thing happened to him on more than one occasion. Eventually, he started getting less annoyed with the event itself and more with, uh, placement. "Come on, if you want to kill me, AIM SOMEWHERE THAT WOULD ACTUALLY KILL ME."

[AMimsyBorogove]

Yeah. I caught the reference. Nice one, by the way. XD

[Lordxana0]

Next fight

Drome 2

Qara vs. Jester

Match begins with fight post.

WATCH OUT.

[Victin]

I was hoping to have overcame this by now, but I think I'll have to talk to Mimsy before I post, giving his long-style...

[AMimsyBorogove]

Whatcha need?

[Victin]

I'd like to make my next move at the same time you do yours, what makes complete sense. However, your iniciative is higher than mine. If I were to wait your post, I'd have reacted before you had done most of your attack, but yet you'd do most of it after my reaction, and it's nonsense your character not noticing/reacting to what I'm going to do.

[AMimsyBorogove]

Just a hint, my next move is going to be essentially instantaneous. Thus, it's basically impossible for you to have your reaction take place at the same time as me, especially considering the fact you're going to be having to fight off a Borogove-patented No Kill Like Overkill before/during your move. So, that wouldn't really work. What you could do is post something bracing for the Limit Break, then I post with the attack, then you post starting from right when I attacked and just detailing it from there, but there still wouldn't exactly be much, if any room for a reaction before it was already over.

[Victin]

I expected so. Therefore I'll post my reaction now.

[AMimsyBorogove]

Estimated collateral damage... Everything.

^
Possibly my greatest understatement yet.

[Sicon112]

OK, Mimsy's insanity aside, I just finished midterms, so I suppose now is as good a time as ever to have my character go active.

[Lordxana0]

Next match

Sicon vs. agoraoptera

Drome 3

Fight to the undeath.

[Sicon112]

Xana, are you sure about that one? I'd kinda feel bad fighting Agora, seeing as I helped invent his powerset so I know all about it and its tricks PLUS I'm a natural counter...

[agoraoptera]

Xana, are you sure about that one? I'd kinda feel bad fighting Agora, seeing as I helped invent his powerset so I know all about it and it's tricks PLUS I'm a natural counter...

Let's do this Sic. In the Palace of the Gods, there's always the possibility, regardless of how minute.

[jacktheriffer]

Alright, I have entered.