05-24-2015, 12:08 AM
(05-24-2015, 12:06 AM)Ryuujin Wrote:(05-23-2015, 11:58 PM)Gonzogonz Wrote: // i don't know how FF magic works, read up on it well enough so you can explain it here in your own words. everything, from the basics to the more advanced. if you can't do that we'll scrap it, and you'll either live with it or you won't, that'll be your choice, with how much trouble you tend to cause, both OOC and in the RP, i don't think people will give you too much wiggle room, so it's one or the other. don't just write 3 lines of text and call it a day, that's just lazy and that sort of thing gets your shit scrapped.// In most FF games, particularly using FF14's model here, there is usually some kind've pervasive aether in the world that is both the catalyst for "life" and source of magic. Magic tends to work by taking that aether and shaping it and changing it's aspect so that it stops being a harmless energy flow and instead becomes a concentrated elemental energy - fire, ice, water, electricity etc. - if only for a brief moment
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// Of course the "flaw" of this (And what I expect you guys have found) in trying shoehorn it into a sci-fi setting is that it assumes the Ancient Greek model of fire, water, lightning etc as being "elements". When actually they are all very disparate phenomena, electricity being an imbalance of charges, cold is the absence of energy, while heat is an abundance of molecular energy, while fire is a runaway oxidation reaction. Earth and Wind don't even make sense as elements... are they some kind've kinetic forces?
// *Exit stage left*
Ryuu doesn't just do Hard Sci-fi confirmed.