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Again, Ria attempted their best at parrying the attacks but failed miserably and their keyblade flew back and disappeared. Ria refused to stand back, being too stubborn, and got up to attack again. However, this time, their keyblade would not summon back, and Ria looked panicked saying, "What? Come back! Damn!" They looked to the two and clenched their fists and said, "Fine, I guess I don't need a keyblade to take you both down." and they reached their hand out. A pretty major glitch happened with the horde. Allowing Relli a chance at escape. The heartless kept flickering out of existence as Ria whispered a countdown to themselves, "Five..." There are a total of 93 shadow heartless. Each shadow heartless takes 5BP to hit. Each BP is worth 20 words. Ria's health is currently at 90/200. You have a total of 20 BP. Round 7 starts now. Round 8 begins in 2 days or until all players have taken their turns. No damage taken. Kara: 15/20 HP Chrys: 20/20 HP Chloe: 10/20 HP Chrono: 15/20 HP Xen: 10/20 HP Daeni: 15/20 HP Alder: 14/20 HP Relli: 10/20 HP Marley: 9/20 HP Cerdic: 9/20 HP The heartless are flickering and will do no damage. Everyone has a chance of getting into the inner circle with Ria before the countdown ends. The rush to the inner circle does not take up a turn, you will still have your turn even after a rush to the inner circle. Better hurry.
I think the light skin looks great. I'm having a bit of an issue with the dark skin however. On threads like this one, for the light skin, the white background of the forum posts is generally separated by a gray color for the content bar every now and again to break from the monotony. In the case of the dark theme, the shades of dark gray are not different enough for it to feel like a necessary break and it all flows together and it's super jarring. I can see there's light grays for this text box for example, and I see that there's some darker grays used for the bottom part of posts. But I feel like the content bar needs to be either darker or lighter. Probably lighter. Also maybe it's just me, and I know it can't really be helped, but this particular "social media blue" color for the background just doesn't work as well with the dark theme? If it is used for the bars and buttons that's fine, but I think the color scheme would greatly improve if the blue background was changed to either a darker blue, or even more of a gray color with the text on the background being a lighter gray. I know it's trying to keep the same central theme together as the colors for v3, but v3 wasn't and didn't have a dark scheme. And I don't think that blue works here as the main background.
Suddenly and without warning, a gust of wind knocked a couple glasses over at the masquerade. Causing some waiters to run over and clean up the mess. Some would say this is hijacking a scenario to change up things. I say natural causes. Though if you ever actually need me: 067 097 108 108 032 109 101 032 105 110 032 109 121 032 099 104 097 109 098 101 114 032 111 102 032 119 111 110 100 101 114 115 046 032 073 032 107 110 111 119 032 116 111 111 032 109 117 099 104 032 097 110 100 032 110 111 116 032 101 110 111 117 103 104 046 032 077 121 032 110 097 109 101 032 105 115 032 069 114 105 110 032 097 110 100 032 073 032 097 109 032 121 111 117 114 032 115 097 118 105 111 114 046
Ria attempted to parry the two's attacks but failed pretty miserably and took the hits. They swung on back and... well it certainly was disappointing. But the heartless swarming in on the other party members certainly was not disappointing. And ended up dragging Relli into the hoard. There are a total of 117 shadow heartless. Each shadow heartless takes 5BP to hit. Each BP is worth 20 words. Ria's health is currently at 130/200. You have a total of 20 BP. Round 6 starts now. Round 7 begins in 2 days or until all players have taken their turns. Kara: 15/20 HP [hit] Chrys: 20/20 HP Chloe: 10/20 HP Chrono: 15/20 HP Xen: 10/20 HP [hit] Daeni: 15/20 HP Alder: 14/20 HP [hit] Relli: 10/20 HP [hit, dragged into the horde] Marley: 9/20 HP [hit] Cerdic: 9/20 HP
[deep breath in to process the fact I'm about to throw some knowledge I didn't think I would ever use on this site] Stone Skipping is entirely based on the conditions of the weather and the water, where the wind direction is, whether it's raining. Whether or not a storm is out at sea and affecting the water. Professional contests held in Mackinac Island, MI, which has smoother waters than the ocean and the wind was relatively decent last year, had professionals average an amount of like, 20-21 skips in their best throws. Now, there aren't a lot of contests and professional stone skippers are usually doing it more as a hobby than as a profession since there's no demand. Also, smoother waters generally gets greater results so people don't usually contest on the ocean for a fairer field of judging. My personal average as a stone skipper myself is around 8-9. My personal best is 19 and I haven't had one close to that since, it was just a perfect throw with certain conditions matching perfectly. The average could be much higher or much lower depending on whether or not people record it, but I'd say on the ocean the average is probably 18-20, while on lakes and ponds it's 23-25 for professionals.
Kaida was listening to everything about this game super intensely and trying to prepare herself, her worry about failing was kind of easy to be seen. She tried calming herself down and when he said she'd be partnered with Kel, she felt herself ask who? for but a moment. I mean, even if Kel had been there for a pretty long time according to everyone, she kind of kept forgetting that he was there... somehow? She had no idea. She was prepared to walk over and find him, but he turned out to be right next to her and spoke, and Kaida jumped slightly in surprise. She didn't even see him walk over. Was that her fault? Kaida turned to him and said, "I'm er, not the best at diplomacy. So I'd like to fight some heartless if ya don't mind." she didn't think she was lying about that, she got super hot headed when having a moment and tended to piss people off. She figured it was probably better for her to be the one taking things out on heartless rather than people.
Ria made more of a determination to keep the power going, and during this round, there was no glitch to be seen. Rather, Ria pointed his hand in the direction of The two running towards him [Alder and Marley] and the heartless swarm that had originally carried Cerdic off went after the two. Only this time, these two were isolated from the rest of the group, and they were both hit pretty hard by the heartless. The other group of heartless swarmed around the rest, containing them separately than the other two. Ria broke off the barrier and pointed their keyblade straight at Alder, since Marley seemed out of commission, "Since you're so insistent on coming for me. Come on then. Maybe I can beat the information out of you, dog." There are a total of 138 shadow heartless. Each shadow heartless takes 5BP to hit. Each BP is worth 20 words. Ria's health is currently at 150/200. You have a total of 20 BP. Round 5 starts now. Round 6 begins in 2 days or until all players have taken their turns. Kara: 20/20 HP Chrys: 20/20 HP Chloe: 10/20 HP Chrono: 15/20 HP Xen: 15/20 HP Daeni: 15/20 HP Alder: 5/20 HP [hit, critical] Relli: 20/20 HP Marley: 0/20 HP [hit, critical] Cerdic: 9/20 HP
The exploit seemed to be discovered and just as the glitch happened, Ria got a nice blast of blizzard shot at their face. Ria recoiled and summoned back the heartless as quick as they could. It looked like they weren't hit too hard but there was one benefit. They kind of summoned 50 less than they normally would have. There are a total of 166 shadow heartless. Each shadow heartless takes 5BP to hit. Each BP is worth 20 words. You have a total of 20 BP. Round 4 starts now. Round 5 begins in 2 days or until all players have taken their turns. No one was damaged this round. Kara: 20/20 HP Chrys: 20/20 HP Chloe: 10/20 HP Chrono: 15/20 HP Xen: 15/20 HP Daeni: 15/20 HP Alder: 15/20 HP Relli: 20/20 HP Marley: 10/20 HP Cerdic: 9/20 HP
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Kathi was listening to the direct content of his words for a moment and didn't know how he found out. But he was being so open with it in front of the other engineers and she herself was shaking a bit. She was taken out of it so much that when she realized John was passing out, her reaction time was too late and she ended up watching him hit the floor before she dropped down and grabbed his head to make sure there wasn't blood. If there seemed to be some sort of damage there she wouldn't have moved him herself. But since he was fine on the injury part, she picked him up and notified the other engineers what she was doing before she headed on back towards the medical bay. Kathi had already been out of it health wise because she went out into space, but she carried him the whole way anyway and walked in and told the nurse there what happened with John before they placed him on the bed again. Then Kathi had to take a step back and a seat to calm herself down. The nurse was pretty helpful with that and fortunately she didn't pass out. But Kathi kept looking over at John as she calmed herself. She didn't know how long he would be out, but she couldn't help but feel a little pissed off over the scenario. He could have met her in private or something, and a part of her was angry that he passed out before she even had a chance at reply because of how much shock she had been in. Kathi stared at her cup of water and swished it around as she whispered to herself, "Sick huh? You just remember me as sick? I wasn't that bad except..." she remembered the month the Everlasting sold most of the crew off as slaves in order to get as much food and water as they could manage while reaching for an SOS message. Kathi remembered how she was originally tagged to go with the group, because of her value due to her skills for more technical races that needed slaves to build machines. Then she had relapsed. And when was able to stay awake for long enough again, everyone she loved was gone. Kathi resented John for reminding her of this pain.
There are a total of 224 shadow heartless. Each shadow heartless takes 5BP to hit. Each BP is worth 20 words. You have a total of 20 BP. Round 3 starts now. Round 4 begins in 2 days or until all players have taken their turns. That rock didn't do anything to you, but that HP to Cerdic might be missed. The heartless move to swarm at the group again, this time however the glitch overtakes all of them for a longer period of time, and Ria is exposed completely for but a second before the heartless return again. Their swarm this time was attempting to be circular, trying to trap people in the middle, the extent of how far they went under coordination wasn't super amazing and they could only hit people who were on the farthest outside. Cerdic unfortunately got stuck in the swarm. He's still there by the way. Kara: 20/20 HP Chrys: 20/20 HP Chloe: 10/20 HP [hit] Chrono: 15/20 HP Xen: 15/20 HP [hit] Daeni: 15/20 HP Alder: 15/20 HP Relli: 20/20 HP Marley: 10/20 HP [hit] Cerdic: 9/20 HP [hit twice by shadows, and friendly fire]
Kathi finished up with the panel, having gotten everything she needed, and she tried to retreat back down to the airlock and once she was in a stable place, while oxygen was being reintroduced to the room, Kathi was taking some deep breaths to calm herself down since she was shaking a lot, but she did her best to remain stable. When the oxygen was back and she was given an all-clear, Kathi took off the helmet and gulped in, well, as close to fresh air as she could get. Anything was better than an air tank. Kathi opened up the room and placed her helmet down and said, "Computer, alert the bridge I'm back inside, and that shields are online." One of the people in engineering gave her some water to gulp down and they went to grab her another glass while she got out of the suit and hung it up in it's allotted place. Finishing up check ins and taking the other thing of water when it was given. Kathi walked on over to go back to the robots to fix them up and she took a big gulp of water just as she noticed John out of the corner of her eye just chilling in the corner of the room and her heart skipped a beat and she covered her mouth to keep the water in. She took a few seconds to recover before saying, "Did medical lose you? I'm apparently good at hiding people who wanna get away from Cartwright's but considering how injured you seemed I highly recommend not being in engineering of all places." She was silent for a moment before awkwardly adding another joke as she worked on the robots, "I mean unless you're reporting to your technical owner due to the signing of papers, but I'm not exactly a slave-owning type so consider that null." the only reason she was even going in this direction with conversation was because she didn't have any intention of bringing up the Everlasting on her own. And she always tried to hide the pain of the topic but the truth was just seeing him in the room like that was stressing her out, but enough years of putting on straight faces helped with that. April heard the knock on the door and heard Simon's voice, and she readily welcomed him in saying, "Hello, and that's perfectly fine." she led him in and did her general encouraging of having people wash their hands, even though she knew Simon would probably wear gloves. She walked on over to where she'd put Keith. Keith was just lying on his stomach in the crib since he wasn't sleeping, he was awake and being relatively playful, the second he looked sleepy April would have moved him to his back. April picked him up and carried him over to where it would be easier for Simon to work and she handed Keith to him carefully. Keith was only two months, so there was not much he could do, but he made an excited chirp (not like an actual chirp don't go all 'ah bird child' ) and April hovered over like the cautious mother she was. Constantly looking over at the door to make sure nothing happened. "He's been eating just fine, he's been sleeping a little less than he did a few weeks ago, I-I don't know if that's normal. He also makes this popping noise every now and again with his lips which I'm really not sure is normal either." April sounded super concerned as she said this things. Keith just looked at Simon calmly, blowing spit bubbles.
