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Post by Entirely Ed on Jun 11, 2017 15:08:10 GMT
You do not have ki suppression. Without it your PL cannot be anything less than your listed base. Thats how it is. The end, sorry.
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Post by Abo on Jun 11, 2017 15:21:15 GMT
You can get ki suppression and flavor it as her regular power just being lower. But your sidebar PL is your canon power level, and you cannot lower it without a tech. Thats how it works
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Post by Etoru on Jun 11, 2017 15:23:30 GMT
Back when I first joined, around a month or two in, I did something similar with Etoru. I wanted his progression to be kind of slow, yet have his potential be something great. So I just flavored Ki Suppression as hidden potential.
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Post by Vennel on Jun 11, 2017 20:57:53 GMT
I would doubt a player would end up spending weeks without getting so much as a grade for something that was put up for grading. Mostly because it would take all of the staff team being too busy for some reason, for it to take that long.
Furthermore, the rules are there to keep a cohesiveness in the story that would otherwise be broken. If people could lower their power without a tech for it, then we'd have other problems. Sorry you don't get to have a special snowflake situation, but you have to adhere to the rules as they are.
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Post by Vi-Poi on Jun 11, 2017 20:59:03 GMT
You do need suppression to lower your PL from what it is. This is to prevent people from trying to metagame a fight without paying any kind of cost, so it's one of those instances where gameplay considerations have taken the upper hand.
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Post by Vennel on Jun 11, 2017 21:09:50 GMT
However, you received a grade for a thread that put you at well above just 400 PL roughly 4 days before the incident in question. So your PL had grown due to training, and your power increased. You started a new thread, and claimed your power level was lower. This is considered lowering, by our definition, and thusly is not permitted.
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Post by Vennel on Jun 11, 2017 21:51:15 GMT
Fortunately, there is a workaround as I was advised up-thread. Hence my recent purchase of Energy Suppression and Energy Setting. Even though I have zero interest in actually hiding Ryder's IC power at this point in time.Granted it's not a total waste, commando is in her background and eventually I did intend to pursue some stealth skills, just not at this juncture in the story. Well I'm glad you've found a means to do so within the bounds of the mechanics and rules established here. So thank you for your understanding and acceptance of procedure Special Snowflake? Wanting to be able to roleplay my power increases like almost any other successful story is being a special snowflake? What sort of special snowscape am I roleplaying in here.... However, about the thought process you have as a writer, major improvement doesn't happen "off-screen," it happens during the thread you attained your gains in. I'm not aware if you've ever done so, but when working out, you're stressing your body so that, when you sleep and rest after, your body can begin it's healing process, strengthening the parts of your body you worked out. So that is quite literally how physical growth takes place.
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Post by Vennel on Jun 11, 2017 21:58:44 GMT
Supernatural as it may be by our standards, it still has it's basis in real world ideas, thoughts, and mythologies. Gravity training, for instance, is quite literally working out. Ki in the dragon ball universe isn't magic, theres a separate energy source of magic that functions differently. But I can understand the misunderstanding.
And in that case, it sounds like you have the basis for a character aspect such as a mental block preventing her from using her full strength until she is forced to do so. And as you've stated before, you've now got techniques to make it actionable in RP.
That being said, this thread has been resolved I believe, unless you have further questions?
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