BZPRPG News and Discussion

[IcarusBen]

Even then it would probably be a One-Hit-Wonder type of thing. You find some artifact somewhere that turns people evil and can only use it once before the entire thing blows up.

 

SHH! Silvan, don't be saying things like that! You'll start giving the staff ideas!

[Silvan Haven]

I want them to have that idea. A machine like that is not something you want just wandering around the game and would leave massive plotholes if not quickly destroyed.

[Nato G]

 

I don't sit at a desk. 

Do you like just float around then

 

 

It's this amazing wonder of technology called a laptop computer. It allows me to sit anywhere I want!

[The UltimoScorp]

Psh. Laptops are so 2014. We use holograms, now.

[Shadowhawk]

I use a laptop.

 

But I sit at a desk.

 

...

 

ima old school

[25K Now!]

Hey guys I'll be on hiatus starting from the 9th so don't be confused if you suddenly see Krayzikk playing thirty Jaliax Sisters other people playing my characters.

[Nato G]

Okay... you will be missed... until you are replaced. Then forgotten immediately! 

[The UltimoScorp]

I don't think any one can replace Hubert.

 

No one else has the range he does with his text posts.

 

Being able to write one word responses, and multi paragraph posts with the wry charm he has?

 

 

Ha.

 

Irreplaceable.

[~Xemnas~]

Bye Hubert we'll find your replacement soon

 

Jk man we'll miss you. Just remember- you can check out any time you'd like, but you can never leave!

[sunflower]

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuub nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

Waaaat will i do without u bby ;~;

[shadow pridak money gang]

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuub nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

Waaaat will i do without u bby ;~;

 

hello

 

-Tyler

[IcarusBen]

I want them to have that idea. A machine like that is not something you want just wandering around the game and would leave massive plotholes if not quickly destroyed.

If you don't want them to leave these things operable, then just have it so that they only work on a select few that get chosen the moment one touches the artifact. I.E. Jorik touches the artifact, it chooses any and all members of the Toa Voya, but Jorik can't use it on, say, Stannis.

[Constructelf]

Guys

 

If you look back at my proposal, I said whole the turning evil thing had to be approved by all parties involved

 

So you couldn't go around turning people evil willy nilly

 

Regardless, staff says it isn't a thing yet, so let's wait until it becomes a thing

 

If it ever does

 

Which is not very likely

[sunflower]

 

 

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuub nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

Waaaat will i do without u bby ;~;

hello

 

-Tyler

Hawt

 

That's right you're baaaaaaack

 

tyler<3

 

 

Also bit late but, Infected Kanohi were sure good plot devices. Yknow.

[Mel]

No? What is this "no" you speak of? Is it a type of Japanese soda?

 

EDIT: Actually, if I'm remembering right, "no" is a suffix used to state the plural of something in Japanese. Therefore, by saying no, you're really saying "more."

 

Mah. Ha. Ha.

 

 

Actually no (ha).  の is actually a possessive particle which roughly translates to "of" in English.

 

Try again. 

Edited January 6, 2015 by Mel

[Eyru]

So, I'm going to need a clarification on Parakuka powers. I was reading the wiki and profiles of Oreius, Toa Maru of Fire. Who has Inu. Is his thing a special case, where he only loses access to his elemental and kanohi abilities when activating the Parakuka?

 

Ghost replied to this, but I figured I'd flesh it out a bit.

 

Normal beings, when bonded with a Parakuka, don't just straight up lose their powers. They lose the ability to access them, as they no longer have the willpower necessary (having two minds distracting each other will do that to you). Your typical being becomes more like a Hordika, who, as you may recall from canon, were also unable to use Kanohi powers, and had to train themselves to use their elemental powers in even the most basic and uncontrollable ways. Parakuka hosts, too, become more like Rahi: aggressive, mistrustful, and drawn to darkness, almost as if they're devolving, returning to their baser instincts.

 

Oreius and Inu aren't special because they carry Tahu's essence: they simply have a stronger connection. This is for a couple reasons. One, if you've read the wiki (or if you were around for last arc), you'll know that Inu was young when he bonded with Onewa, and the Turaga was able to influence him towards goodness and light instead of the other way around. This makes Inu more cooperative: though he's still aggressive by nature, it's easier for Oreius to work with him than with another Parakuka more steeped in evil.

 

The second and more important reason is simply because the two bonded before Oreius became a Toa. When he transformed, the power of the Essence Stone fused them together, forging a deeper and more powerful connection than known by any other Parakuka and host. Instead of two personalities inhabiting two separate minds, Oreius and Inu share one mind, and this allows Oreius the concentration necessary to wield his mask and elemental powers.

 

Of course, when Inu activates, Oreius loses access to those powers in exchange for heightened speed and strength. Activation essentially fuses their minds together completely, and the resulting entity doesn't possess the necessary willpower: they're ruled mostly by instinct rather than conscious thought.

 

tl;dr i accidentally the most op toa in the game

[sunflower]

tl;dr i accidentally the most op toa in the game

oreo vezzy mano-a-mano brawl when doe

[Eyru]

oreo vezzy mano-a-mano brawl when doe

 

grav i don't know if the game could handle it

 

...

 

we gotta do it

[Keeper of Kraata]

Thank you for the info! Inu's page on the wiki is a bit... scarce, so I wouldn't have been able to find out otherwise. Also has some nice pointers for playing Fyura. Who is now a vampire.

[Eyru]

Thank you for the info! Inu's page on the wiki is a bit... scarce, so I wouldn't have been able to find out otherwise. Also has some nice pointers for playing Fyura. Who is now a vampire.

 

Yeah, I should probably get on that. I think there's one sentence each on Oreius' and Inu's pages...

[25K Now!]

I need to use the wiki more.

 

Except then I realise I'll have to add information on all my characters and it's daunting.

 

Are there still badges?

[EmperorWhenua]

Badges?

 

We don't need no stinkin' badges.

 

(But yes, we still have them.)

[Razgriz]

 

tl;dr i accidentally the most op toa in the game

oreo vezzy mano-a-mano brawl when doe

 

"My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious.

 

I want to eat your heart."

 

[Timageness]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Not Quite Dead]

 

tl;dr i accidentally the most op toa in the game

oreo vezzy mano-a-mano brawl when doe

 

 

I get the feeling oreo is stronger than a ga-matoran, so that fight might be a little one sided

[Razgriz]

d a n g

[sunflower]

I get the feeling oreo is stronger than a ga-matoran, so that fight might be a little one sided

:3

[Timageness]

Okay, I know that it's been said that someone with a Mask of Healing couldn't graft a new arm onto a patient that had previously lost one due to the number of nerve endings that would need to be re-attached, but what if the missing body part was simpler, like an eye for example? Would that be able to be transplanted, provided that there was a donor part?

[Snelly]

That would require an incredible amount of medical knowledge. No one on the island has such knowledge.

[Nato G]

How well does the Sana work on old injuries? A broken bone that healed badly, or an eye that was damaged years before, that sort of thing? 

[Ghosthands]

How well does the Sana work on old injuries? A broken bone that healed badly, or an eye that was damaged years before, that sort of thing?

If the body has already healed the wound on its own, however imperfectly, the Sana won't do anything.

[Nato G]

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. Twas was more out of curiosity than anything else. 

[Timageness]

Okay. Just wondering.

[Palm]

That's why Agrona scars the people she heals, because she knows they won't fix it with another Sana. Sooner or later, everybody gets marked

 

EDIT:
Forgot to mention, Agrona has certainly experimented with her mask and her knowledge of the body continues to grow after years of dissections and continuing dissection. She can't quite put an arm back together, but she can do it wrong intentionally.

 

So long as she does it for a purpose anyways.

Edited January 6, 2015 by Palm

[Tea-rex]

For sale:

1 loveable slightly insane Toa named Talu.

Backstory, Mask & name available for change

Everything else not open for change.

 

Contact details:

PM Alijar with what you will do with him and how you will change him. Best answers will be thrown into a fruit machine to pick winner.

 

Phonelines are now open!

Edited January 6, 2015 by Alijar

[Endless Sea (Alaki Nuva)]

*glances at 2001, where the Mata literally assembled themselves from scratch*

 

:|

[Palm]

Yeah we don't do that here.

 

It would be a loss of consequence.

[Krayzikk]

Yeeeeeah that doesn't happen. Falls under the higher than canon organics presence.

 

On the topic of the Sana, I think it's important to note that it is only really drastically sped up healing. A Mask of Healing cannot heal something that the body couldn't do by itself simply due to the nature of how it works. If the body couldn't ever possibly recover, a healer isn't going to have any idea how to fix it either. Decapitation, loss of limb, these are all things that a Sana can't fix. The reason its recoveries are so drastic are because it accelerates the healing process to such a degree that if there were even a remote chance of survival from an injury a Sana user can make it a reality.

 

However, a Sana relies on skill too. As the likelihood of survival decreases, the greater the degree of skill a Sana user must have in order for that healing to be a success. In other words, there are injuries that it's really, really hard to heal and there are injuries which simply can't be healed.

 

And while it cannot heal things the body has already healed, it can heal new injuries. For example if a bone healed incorrectly and was re-broken at the same point a Sana user could heal it correctly. That only really extends to bones, though, because injuries inflicted upon other tissues are incredibly difficult to replicate in order to re-heal an incorrect healing.

 

Short statement; Sanas are not instant recovery devices. Not by a long shot.

[Light]

Hence why guard force medics like Murrae use scalpels, sutures, and other surgical tools alongside their Sanas. Scalpels allow for scar tissue to be removed, sutures allow a medic to stich something together the right way before healing it.

 

Neither of those extend to limbs though, because too much stuff has to be reconnected.

[Not Quite Dead]

Yeah, I always figured that with serious injuries a Sana got you from the "bed-ridden" to the "limping around" stage quicker, not up to full health.