BDE Info Post 2: Survivor Details: Electric Boogaloo

[spring_lost]

Hey, guys! It's us again, with the promised extra 'canon' details for the surviving parties on Vamped Fandom. We'll leave you all the space to flesh things out for your individual characters, on a smaller or a greater scale, by ways of the brainstorming post coming up. These, however, are the guidelines the world spins by, the axis of the island,

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[hotceltogoth]

Regarding powers!

One of the things I'd like to do with Lulu is have her limited to her first-level spells (and fairly weak versions of those -- say, what Rikku could cast) -- this means Thunder, Blizzard, Water, and Fire. Which brings up the concern of the Fire spell, since, y'know, anything that can catch vampires on fire from a distance, no matter how weak, would probably be considered overpowered on the island, under the dampening spell.

But I've got a potential solution for that, that I think would work, and I wanted to check to see if it would be allowed: while Relly and I have been saying that, in-game, the FFX spells just summon forth x amount of the particular element, there's no evidence in the source for the spells actually causing monsters -- or even people -- on fire. Ergo, could we argue that under the dampening spell, things like Lulu's fire spell would cause damage to the vampires -- enough to make them hurt, and maybe force them away (at least, weaker ones?), but not enough to actually catch them on fire? Thus

[findingelena]

From the wrong account: I've actually been thinking about this. What if it was fire, but just a super watered-down version? I mean, if you took a lighter and lit a vampire's sleeve on fire, that'd distract them (FIRE BAD) while they put it out, and possibly cause a little singe/burn mark if they didn't put it out quickly, but it's not like carrying a lighter is going to save you from a vampire. It'd be helpful, but not likely to kill any of them, or do much more than annoy them.

[mistressofblack]

... See, now I'm giggling at the thought of people going around and using lighters to light vampires' sleeves on fire.

[mparkerceo]

Parker: *does this as a matter of course, lights a cigarette off the vamp*

[thatsamilkshake]

What Rikku said, more or less!

General power levels for all magic users are severely reduced. No spells that could be used offensively can be used offensively, and all spells would be very weak, period. If you used to be able to power up a house with your magic, now you can make your flashlight turn back on for another ten minutes or so when the battery dies.

In general, the idea is to get people with magic powers to not be able to use them for anything but small stuff that would have flown under the vampires' radar. So to use a specific example, Lulu could use Fire, but she wouldn't have enough power to do more than light the tinder for a campfire with it.

[mistressofblack]

*nodnod* That makes a lot of sense, thanks. :D I was thinking the right thing, then, just not quite to the right degree. (And even such limited magic can be v.v.useful if you know how to use it -- time to think creatively!)