Right. Cloaking.

Lol, sorry. I would have definatly fleshed out the fullest extent of the description, time allotted, however as you've probabbly noticed, I like to write alot. I have to paraphrase for myself, However, I have made these drawbacks apparent in other situations which they were used, and the person who encountered them reacted naturally. He went into alert, Swung out a shotgun, and cautiously made his way to the controll room to put out an alert. If you are who I think you are, You just said, and I quote "((Get out.", Assuming I was just doing it to annoy you. I asked you to not meta, as it's part of the roleplay, and to act naturally, You obliged, Pulled out a gattling gun bigger than yourself and maintained a continous stream of bullets on me. Whether you were I/C or otherwise, It wasn't a reaction to be taken seriously, so I disengaged the rp with you, (If a little impolitely. It was rather late.). I Do Apologize if I came off as mean towards you last night. I was far past fatigued, But threatening to evict me OOC Because of IC actions Because you "Have the right because you built the place" Didn't help either.

 

If I may point somthing else out, And "The Overseer", whoever you are, Not trying to throw you under the bus here, I'm simply using you as a point of reference, But That character accosted Marathon (Somehow. Perhaps it was already established he was a bad guy? I'm not quite sure.), Ended up stuck in the scanner, And was gunned down, However moments before they opened the scanner doors, He went completely invisible, And only died due to the overzealous marines blindly firing inside.

Other than a collective "Woah, Wtf? Did he log out?" From everyone, including myself, After he made it apparent that his character, now riddled with holes, had actually just went invisible, Nobody seemed to argue against it.

Perhaps because he was dead already, so he wouldn't be doing it again, sure. But there wasn't a meticulous ((Loose)) Scientific backing behind it, Or any sort of established flaws in it, Everyone just kinda went with it. Why is my situation so different? Does my character have to be deceased for the ability to be okay? Because that seems like a harsh balance.

 

I apreciate your Metal gear rising reference, And will gladly answer the host of your questions, if you'll entertain my train of thought.
I do feel I've already touched over the basics of a number of most of your questions in my previous posts, however, I'll run over them again.

Firstly, I explained that there isn't much allotted time to post "The Floran's arm began crawling over with nothingness, A grin on his face as the agent forced it's way through his blood stream, his body, and surprisingly enough his Floran themed armor starting to evaporate from the man's feild of vision untill his body was fully occupied by the gunk, The magnetic reaction from the ferrous fluid causing the light around him to bend in such a way that would suggest somthing was there, but not fully, the image of where he stood distorted by the less than complete system of cloaking, The Floran seeming smarmy and content with his percived 'foot-up' on the human", But I think one would lose interest after a while. When I first did this to the chap mentioned before, The one who reacted fluidly and naturally, Oscar, It was closer to his, as I was just beta-testing people's tollerance of the ability, And he seemed fine, Satisfied with the reaction of what I can only assume was a seasoned rper's reaction to it, I felt that Paraphrasing it would be acceptable as well.

Secondly, A mischievous floran looking for a way to sink out of a unsavory conversation, does not a Flying, bomber-greifer make.

Thirdly, My character's backstory is that he's the runt of a Floran litter on some backwater Floran planet that had yet to get the opportunity to reverse engineer space travel due to it's dessolation. Being a fair bit shorter than most of the warriors, and bounds weaker, He resorted to misdirection and "Backstabbing". Flanking during mass tribal confrontations, Sleight of hand. (See: The Spy, Circa Tf2, Sans Disguise device.) And benefeited for it. His superiors in his clan were always baffled at him comming back in one piece. Eventually when the first, unlucky visitor came to his planet, he was fortunate enough to be awarded the use of the ship, (Once fully researched) and now uses it to come and go as he pleases.

Now slightly faster paced,
4. Button Mash, Now with full facilities in Marathon, and nothing to do, after the denial of experimentation on the cadaver of "The Overseer", despite cries of a very useful outecome, and even, if applicable, Replication, duplication, and even production of the cloaking device he had, Seethed in his being kept down. Not to be overlooked, and with a new, overzealous Floran subject, eeger to better himself any way he possibly could, He began trying any range of things he could possibly think of within the bounds of the physics to make this being see-through. The pay-off for him would have been the bragging rights, and an ability to gloat.

5. It's not readilly available, the process took just north of a few weeks, and isn't very comfortable, or practical.

6. Some people have Trypanophobia, And take frequent baths. The delivery method and application isn't feasible for them.

7. The effects are dependant on his heartrate, however the injection method is made to be as quick as it can without warping his veins. ((Or roots?))

8. Assuming Floran have the same physiology as a human being, Because a heart compresses and retracts, forcing blood rather surprisingly fast through the human body, as well as metabolizing it, and the such, The metabolizing portion, (If you bothered to read one of my earlier posts, which I have a sinking suspicion you have neglected to do) would be spark the slow end to his translucent journey. However, the slower his heartrate, the slower it metabolizes, Not taking into account how strong or weak his metabolism is, Sitting still, (The preferred method of use for the device) Would help it last longer.

9. It has many, many medical drawbacks, and most likely shaves years off his life with every use, However, The Floran was not health-sensitive at the time of consent.

10. that's fine, I don't know how magnets work either.

11, 12, 13 Respectivly. Yes, About as painful as an IV shooting low-pressure bursts of liquid into your veins, and Yes.

Now, about those nanites. Did you know there's currently a study on cockroaches that involves attaching Nanites with a payload of medicine into the Strands of DNA inside the cockroach, Delivering the medicine when given a signal?
The applications are infinite.
Think of the war economy.

 

I'll put it into simpler terms.

Jealous that he couldn't work on The Overseer's invisibility device, He sought to replicate it of his own accord. The Floran voulenteered because Button Promised him he could make him stronger.

Also, I didn't want to break out google, but,
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081203093048AAelTP8
there you are.
There isn't an easily parced answer to why it's effects were so rapid.
I could grasp at straws to say "His heartrate could have been high, as he was being threatened by a marshall outside of his right"?

Surely it was a bit heavy handed to equip the camera-man helmate as soon as the post disappeared, but in terms of roleplay, Effect and emotion are to be taken into concideration. I was looking for a surprised "-The Marshall stood up, gun drawn, now on alert, eyes wide, he scanned infront of him-
And I wouldn't have even been surprised if I got a "-The Marshall jumped into action, Raising his rifle, He fired off in a steady spray from the hip, Ripping a massive, gutteral wound through the Floran by chance-". But you didn't do any of that. You went "((Get out." And When I asked you to be serious, You hopped onto the sandbags and unloaded a massive splitbullet Gattling gun into my character.

How does he carry that massive Mini-gun?
why is he allowed to fire on unarmed, registered citizens showing no force?
Could it be that you were annoyed OOC By the floran making a point to annoy the Marshall IC, for his own amusement?
How was he able to fire that stream of powerful bullets as steady as he did?
Why wasn't he screaming "Cry sum moar" as he did? I feel it's a bit uncharacteristic to weild a minigun with lazer-point accuracy and not be fazed at all without being the Heavy class.

 

Now, look Tacc. I don't Enjoy Arguing these points against you. I Would Like, however, for whatever official is supposed to rule over this presiding to make his ruling, put this behind us, and be friends, having been better for it in the future. I Do Very much appreciate the immence effort it must have taken for you to build Marathon, However, I Don't Appreciate you threatening to evict me OOC for IC reasons, With your justification being "I built the place.".
I feel I've adequately answered all of your questions, and a fair range of future questions can be answered through implication if you took the time to look back at my previous posts, (Which, And you have my apologies for, Might be a while. Lol.) therefore, I'm going to disengage in this embroilment, and return to my work.
I've got a 5 page essay due at no later than 1:25pm tomorrow afternoon, to none other than Mrs. Satan's Wife herself, And I feel my Adderal Xr wearing off, A substance that's detrimental to my work ethic.
Apon wearing off, I'll be nothing short of a belligerent, sore mess of anger. So I'd rather not talk to you untill i'm in my right mind tomorrow.
You have my apologies if I in any way disrupted your roleplaying experience, Whether it be properly justified or otherwise.
Have a good day. (That, of which, I do not mean in a passive agressive way. I hope you go on to enjoy a short sabbatical from my presence.)

 

Look, Tacc. I can't help but feel like we got off on the wrong foot. I really don't want to argue with you any further about this, And would instead prefer to let one of the admins or the such give me the final answer.

Seeing it from your perspective, I totally get it. And yeah, It was sort of a "Huh, Yeah, that would kinda set the character apart from your average floran... Let's see if we can work this in" on my part. It's about my 4th, I belive, 5th day on the server, I wasn't aware I had to clear unique powers with the admins. At the time, I was a bit mad at you for the silly "Gattling gun to the face" thing, but looking back, I was just a tad tired, and a bit embarrassed you weren't taking the power well.
Again, you have my apologies for disrupting your roleplaying experience at all. I wasn't aiming to do that. However, I'll leave the final decision to the Admins. ((Which, btw, do I have to Pm them with this? Or what.))

This reminds me faintly of a time I went to DM a skype-based rp group. It was my first time handling somthing with quite the scale that it had. there were about 9 people, myself included, and my character was to drive the plot. I didn't know what "Railroading" was, and didn't know it was a huge detriment to the whole plot, And that it would anger everybody.
Natrually, the group fell apart with disinterest towards my roleplaying ineptitude, However I learned from it, and I bet a fair amount that I could run the same campaign as a compelling, intricatly woven story without a hitch.

I find that this is somewhat like our current situation. Being new to this medium of roleplay, I simply followed "Monkey-see-Monkey-do" Protocol. I thought it was an interesting angle when The Overseer vanished into thin air, And The interesting, but overall malignant conflict the floran created when he decided to test (Ic, of course.) his new ability out, curious how the soldier would react. Now, Out of character, After two instances of use that wasn't immediatly thrown into dispute my those who beheld it, I thought it would be fine.

To sum it up, and you'll have to forgive me for this wall of text, But The makers of Halo:Combat evolved didn't explain the intricate ins and outs of the active camo the aliens had. They implimented it to add a surprising burst of "Oh, shit, what?" When you see that energy sword bobbing towards you from across the room. That's sort of how I thought it would be, and really, I do feel rather silly for thinking such.

(Edit) (Lol, I don't want to add Metagaming to the list of charges against me, but even if the thing is accepted, I'll try to keep it as a "Last resort", Or not at all with him. I understand you're iffy about it, and I don't want to step on anybody's toes over such piffle as a late night fatigue grudge match.)

 

I appreciate your opinion, It's constructive, and adds to the growing pattern of dislike i'm noticing towards invisibility.
I'd like to preface my reply with "I'm not really defending my choises anymore."
On that note, It just happens that I considered both of those options, but, Button Mash, in all his "Hands on experience" wouldn't know anything about building a micro-nuclear reactor, Or putting together a nano-fibre suit. He's more of a "Oh, this does that when I do this?" "Trial and error learner".
Also, The idea of the Camera Man Helmet was, again just somthing I did because I saw someone mention it as the reason The Overseer went invisible. I thought it would be a good, organic way to make whoever was engaged in the scene feel like the person was invisible. Rather than just Rping it out, while my sprite stands there, Feeling it would be a bit flaccid.

 

In fact, I don't think I'll be waiting for the Admins' ruling. The only reason I fought so fervently with my words, is that when I first got into the arguement with Tacc, I was tired, and took it personally. "That one dude can have invisibility, but I can't? What the heck?! He's not even taking this rp seriously." I thought in my sleepy stupor.

However, Now I realize I was wrong. Apon talking to Tacc, further fleshing out how he felt, his side of the story, his discrepancies and the such, It wasn't personal. For all he knew, I could be some fresh out of the barrel 10 year old from a building server who joined on accident and thought "Acting like starbound is fun!". It wasn't personal, I now find, Rather it was more of a "Oh, shit. Here we go again." Thing after this "Firebomb dropping Cloaker" incident I've heard of.

As for everybody chiming in, in a friendly, constructive manner, Giving their opinion, and nothing more, I've come to find that, again, It's not personal. I just happened to gravitate towards a god awful unique power that's been abused and left a horrid taste in the mouth of all who beheld it.

In this moment of clairvoyance, I do think I'll retconn the whole "Cloaking" thing, as it is a bit of a nuisance to the other rpers, I've now come to find.

So that you can see it from my point of veiw as well, Tacc, The well for RP potential in Marathon for anybody who isn't in the Military is a barren one.
The "Invisibility" Thing was about... Let's say 39% Me just wanting to be able to create conflict where before, there was none, As The most 'plot altering' thing any of my characters has been involved in was Button Mash performing the emergency medical resuscitation of some random avian that made his way to the front gate.

When I think back on it, I do feel very much foolish. I should have known when making it "If it needed This Many Drawbacks to come off as appealing, I'm probably doing it wrong. So yes. I do think I'll be retconning the "Cloaking", ability. Again, My apologies for taking it personally, and letting my judgement get so clouded.

 

He seemed like a tottally chill dude. When they were poking at his body and dragging him around, He totally went with it. Other than fuckin' with them with subtle hints he might be alive in the description of his gruesome death, He seemed like a very experienced rper. I know I would have been super butt-rustled if one of my characters got gunned down super hard with no fore-warning. And perhaps he was? Perhaps the Invisibility was his one sliver of hope that he could have managed not to get hit, skipped on out of the base and lived to a ripe old age, but surely he realized "Naw, that'd be super fuckin' lame." about one line of rp later, Rping out his character being nothing more than a new red coat of paint on the scanner.
(Much quicker than /I/ came to terms with it.)

(Edit. Ironically, I just had to define a word I didn't know in this book report that described me perfectly. "Obstinate".))

 

Lol, It's probabbly because I type so much, but I just said "Ah, screw it. I'll retcon it. People don't like it" just a few posts back. Whether I can justify it or not isn't important to me anymore, because even if I got it through, People would dislike it. That would be selfish of me.

 

Naw, they were good, medically based questions. but I'm just retconning it. From the mass of people that don't like it, I don't feel like I'd even want it if I could have it. Nah'mean?

I could probably argue a few of these questions, But yeah. I realized already how obstinate I've been. It's not like it would bring much to the rp anyway.