TCotM: Tenebrynn's Idylls

[Rystil Arden]

"The Psion power is also sometimes used to split up groups of enemies, so if you send the enemy's leader a minute into the future, you can kill all the minions easily during that time and then wait around, fully buffed and prepared, for the leader to pop back in."

 

[Velmont]

"The way you tell it is like the Crux was intelligent. Is it the case?" asks Rinaldo

 

[Rystil Arden]

"That's unclear, but probably not. Jellyfish have no brain, and yet they can still make autonomic responses, and so can mindless vermin or constructs."

 

[Knight Otu]

"The Psion power is also sometimes used to split up groups of enemies, so if you send the enemy's leader a minute into the future, you can kill all the minions easily during that time and then wait around, fully buffed and prepared, for the leader to pop back in."

"Or to remove the threat to give you some time to flee. Despite my apparently diminished mind, I feel I still can evaluate what I might do with such an effect. But my interest isn't what we would do with it - I am trying to understand how it is advantageous for the Crux. Unless we assume that Sin's attacks on us were part of the defense mechanism, the only two uses for the Crux I see are 'Division of Forces' and 'Frustration of Assaulters'. Both would be useful with an intellect or other forces to take advantage of - but the Crux is immobile, presumably unintelligent, and Sin was only there due to Lust. If Sin had not been part of the equation, that defense would have only been a small hurdle, it seems. Even as a last ditch defense, that appears inadequate, unless there are other components to it."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"It's a legitimate point. I never really thought deeply on the matter because I never really cared. Well...what if instead, it caused all the particles of the one absorbed to become fully dispersed. That would have some probability of totally annihilating the entity absorbed, unless the entity manages to exert itself enough to recapitulate itself, or if the entity was tied too strongly to the timeline. In other words, the defense mechanism could eliminate summoned animals, minions, and such completely, and it would cause the delay-gap we experienced when dealing with real heroes who are strongly anchored to the timeline because of their great deeds. In other words--the Crux may have failed because it came across beings too powerful to be absorbed."

 

[Bront]

"Was Lex the last one in? If so, and it was struggling with power, that might be why she wasn't effected, as it may have been strained on the other 4 of us."

OOC: I know I asked this before, but not in the full group, and I'm too lazy to look it up.

 

[Velmont]

"No, Lex followed you. After Lex, Ashnar and Guile was absorbed. I was teh last, and I was so near to get it, I just didn't take my time, I was kind of stress by Sin who was throwing fireball with teh help of some unseen servant."

 

[Bront]

"I didn't think an unseen servant could cast fireballs," Vanitri says. He looks at Raine, "Yes, I did actualy pay attention in class. Occasionaly."

"Well, that holds off that theory, though Lex still may not have been as deeply tied to the timeline as the rest of us. She does throw a bit of a wrench into most of the theories though."

[sblock=ooc]"Oh, I know, she's an NPC! That's why!"

Too metagamey though.[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

"No, she was casting delayed blast fireball to be exact. The unseen servant only pushed the bead before it explode, so it can explode at teh top of the stairs. Nice strategy, but she had plenty of time to think about it, things we didn't got when it was time to destroy the Crux... and I think it is because of her I am convince it still must be destroy. She told me too many lied and mong these lies, she told me it was too dangerous to destroy the Crux, it could blast off teh whole region, but I think she told me that just because she wanted to trick me."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Actually, pretty much all of what Sin told you was true. The only thing that was a bluff, and a very bold and gutsy bluff, frankly, was that the contract would bind you. She was hoping that the 'good guys' wouldn't be the ones to act with backstabbing treachery as long as she remained honourable on her end. Sometimes, though, in the real world, the line between 'good guys' and 'bad guys' is more blurry, and people do what they have to do. Your children might have been in danger, Rinaldo, so I certainly don't fault you for being the one between the two of you to betray the other..."

"Of course, you're right that destroying the Crux might not cause such a problem. It is simply unknowable--you could bet the fate of the universe on it, but personally I wouldn't"