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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,512 Joined: 16-August 03 From: Northampton Member No.: 5,499  |
I'm find orange juice and sprite mix is working fine thank you. No need to summon spirits, besides i the drain might just hurt a bit.
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Mar 29 2004, 05:44 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 577 Joined: 23-July 03 From: outside America Member No.: 5,015 |
What if I cast Levitate on myself and get a heap of successes which make me go fast. Then I get my Sky Spirit to do its Movement on me (and also Guard too, to make sure I don't hit anything) then I can tear around the city like Neo catching Trinities. Wahay!
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Mar 29 2004, 06:05 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
you can, indeed. i know a high-grade phsymage who uses that combo; he can, without trying too hard, beat out fighter jets.
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Mar 29 2004, 06:42 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Assuming Magic 12, Force 8 with 8 successes (16 dice, sucking up the M Stun), you've got a movement speed of 120 meters per CT or 144km/h. Summon a Force 10 Sky Spirit, and you're moving at 1440km/h.
You might want to get the kind of G-pants that fighter pilots use. From 40m/s to 400m/s in 1 CT means an acceleration of 120m/s^2 or slightly over 12Gs, which is uncomfortable to say the least. And you better not make any sharp turns. Or keep your eyes open. Or have baggy clothes. And the sonic boom would probably wreak havoc on the fragile human body. |
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Mar 29 2004, 07:43 AM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
A Physmage isnt as good as a real mage for this since the speed is determined by the number of sucesses times your magical ability power level. It's likely that a pure mage could go a lot faster.
In retrospect this is kind of pointless, because you will WAY outrun the spirit in nothing flat, he cant keep up. |
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Mar 29 2004, 05:01 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,616 Joined: 15-March 04 Member No.: 6,158 |
Levitation does nothing to protect your body from high speed. So unless the human body can withstand traveling at Mach 2 without any protection whatsoever, I don't think it would be a good idea.
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Mar 29 2004, 05:16 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
That's not mach 2, it's just over mach 1.5. :D
A normal mage with a magic attribute of 6 to 8 will not be able to break the sound barrier, really. And he's likely to kill himself before too long. Probably in a comical way. Hilarity ensues. :grinbig: |
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Mar 29 2004, 05:29 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,685 Joined: 17-August 02 Member No.: 3,123 |
Be a Horse Shaman. |
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Mar 29 2004, 05:48 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
Yeah, that'd work just fine. :D
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Mar 29 2004, 06:10 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Actually, 400m/s is only 1.175 Mach at sea level. As long as you don't levitate higher than 8-9 thousand meters, you can levitate at a nice 300m/s without breaking Mach 1. The drag might still cause serious problems, I have no idea.
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Mar 30 2004, 08:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 577 Joined: 23-July 03 From: outside America Member No.: 5,015 |
Couldn't the Spirit use Fast Astral Movement to keep up with you?
If you wore a pointy wizard hat and used it as your nose cone you could break the sound barrier. You wouldn't be able to do it with a rounded front however - that's why Spitfires (and other round-prop driven aircraft) could never break Mach 1 - they needed a pointy nose. |
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Mar 30 2004, 08:19 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
the spirit just has to keep you in LOS. send it up to the upper edge of the atmosphere, and LOS goes a pretty long ways.
oh, and when i said high-grade, i meant high-grade. do not try this at home. |
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Mar 30 2004, 05:32 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Where did you get that spirits must maintain LoS to sustain a power? The section in SR3 comments that they have no TN penalty for sustaining powers, but makes no stipulation that their sustaining is any more limited than that of a solid mage.
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