Can you clear some PM space, bossman?
Can you clear some PM space, bossman?
Ultra Instinct: For six years, with the help of her teachers - Parsley, Ochazuke, and Zaofan - Sarada had been working toward a goal to perfect the art of fighting purely off muscle memory. Little did she know that she had unwittingly been tapping into a technique inherent to and perfected by a race of creatures called Angels. Ultra Instinct is its name and its regard as one of, if not the ultimate martial technique. The body moves without input from the mind, eliminating the precious time wasted with thinking then reacting. This vastly increases her reaction time, reflexes, and speed. It also comes with a variety of other perks.
- Reflexive Evasion: Sarada can predict exactly how her opponent will react, and thus already have her evasive maneuver in motion by the time said action is put in play.
- Offensive Intuition: She is able to intuitively detect weak-points in her opponents body/defense, allowing her to strike with maximum efficiency.
- Essential Celerity: Essential Celerity is the gradual boost in her speed over the lifetime of the battle. Her speed only increases as needed,
- Whetting Stone: Whetting Stone refers to the sharpening of her hand to hand skills. As the fight progresses, her strikes become faster, stronger, and sharper. Whetting Stone doesn't increase her overall strength, but greatly improves her striking power.
- Seamless Transition: Seamless Transition is her body’s ability to fluidly transition between attacking and defending. The transitions happen so seamlessly that it's difficult, if not impossible, to sense them.
Ohh, trust me, I have plenty left.
Black Knight of SO
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Claimer of the original Rumbles 2,000,000th post
CBR GM/DM
To my view, these current circumstances feel like they're reaching to force a moment instead of building up to it.
There has been very little, if any, interactions with my characters as 'teachers' to inform this sudden realization - especially recently - or any progression in the flow of current events that would inform Sarada coming out of it like this, other than the character plan. There's not much of an arc to it or any buildup. If anything, Sarada's course has always been more 'I will get it because I already taught myself' with her interpretation of events twisting to suit this view so she doesn't actually need to learn anything.
This is also a repetition of what Ochazuke just did with the Heka Flow to restore Sarada. That she can suddenly also just use it, while purposely skirting interaction with him, is offputting, considering.
Mechanically this doesn't make sense either, as if anything these are the components for the "God Ritual" that took place maybe a few hours ago in-game.
Why didn't she reach Ultra Instinct during either of these times?
As it is, it comes off as Sarada is spamming Heka, an ability she doesn't have, that even Parsley couldn't figure out, which is grounded in being selfless to use as a basis for an ability that translates to "The Secret of the Self Centred" by spamming an NPC powerbase.
Thematically, spamming Heka, leveraging the faith of others for selfish ambitions, is something nobody should be doing if they are opposed to Sakin.
I guess it would resonate more as a capstone to a character arc if the words backed up the actions and if there was any engagement with player characters prior to the lipservice. It's not keeping in with a 'light our desperate hour' vibe, but coasting through to the finish on easy mode while asking everyone to acknowledge it. As much as I advocate for collaboration, I'm perturbed that this isn't reciprocated.
Regardless, I'm going to take a bit of time to cool down before the next response.
Last edited by grampagen; 10-30-2022 at 09:48 AM.
Fair criticisms. You're right, I could have a should have handled it all better than I did. I was so focused on my other storylines that this one fell to the wayside until it was too late, even though this was supposed to be her main one. I knew it was happening in the background, but failed to give any indication to anyone else that it was and didn't give anyone a reason to care.
As for the lack of collab, you're right again. I won't make excuses for that. Sorry.
I apologize for the delay. This next post is an important/long one, so I’ve been trying to write it well.
I will hopefully have it up today.
Black Knight of SO
Owner/Operator of SO’s Item/Weapon Shop
Claimer of the original Rumbles 2,000,000th post
CBR GM/DM
Apologies, all.
(Over)work, then covid, then more (over)work has occupied my time as of late.
The poster formerly known as Daiyoukai Ramza.
Cleric, are you prepping something, or are you waiting for a specific player to respond before proceeding?
Like I don't mind waiting, but it's kinda hard to gauge what Sackthorn can actually do by just staring at him.