Magical Teacher Professor Landry! - Discussion 4: Battles Take Too Long!

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Teal Mage

I'd prefer if you submitted new power proposals in-thread, incidentially. I feel less like I'm talking to myself, that way.

Fiiiiiine.

Preferred Ability
Desynch-Glamour Upgrade
Element: White, I would assume.
Effect: Dal is able to manipulate the illusions around himself to make it appear as though he is slightly behind or ahead of himself in time by about a second.

Further explanation: We shall use a combat situation to further explain how this would work in practice (as it is an application of his illusions that Dal created specifically for swordplay back in the day).

Example 1: Dal moves to attack, but due to this ability his strike seems to be coming earlier than it really is. His opponent moves to block, and Dal is able to pull back to strike from a new angle, adjust to strike around the guard, or otherwise alter his attack with what appears to be super human reflexes to anyone watching. In reality, however, Dal has been moving at the same speed as ever, and has simply had a little extra time to react to his opponents defense. The illusion of speed is due to his glamour catching up to his actual body.

Example 2: Dal moves to attack once more, but this time the strike seems to be coming a fraction of a second later. The opponent guards too late and Dal's strike lands. In this situation, however, there would be no seeming supernatural speed. Indeed, it might even appear as if Dal is recovering from the block more slowly than he should be. Further, due to the fact that glamour fools all five senses, the opponent would feel themselves blocking successfully and would not feel any pain from their wound, and, assuming it is non-fatal, would be unlikely to even notice it until, or unless, it is pointed out. Spectators would be even less likely to notice the wound.

Example 3: The defense. Due to the fact that Dal is never exactly where he appears to be (unless the battle has broken enough for him to be standing still), the opponent's strikes find it much more difficult to find openings in the Fae's defense that are actually still there when the attack is made.

However, unless he specifically keeps the ability synched in a particular direction (ahead or behind him--which has its own issues) its use is rather obvious. Not that there is an illusion about him persay, but that there is SOMETHING wrong, as his body seems to jerk and sway, with bursts of stuttering unnatural speed, or equally unnatural (for a battle, anyway) and stuttering lethargy.


Or if that one is not okay, or not okay YET, then wing upgrade to allow flight at running speeds.