(12-14-2014, 10:56 AM)Oli! Wrote: Here's my opinion.Don't worry about the Ceruleum lore, you will not find anything other than it's used a a fuel source. I know I've tried to look myself. Thing is, I once proposed a idea of why Aaron was poisoned with it and why he didn't cause a nuclear explosion (it involved aether starved Mor Dhona) and everyone here who read the thread was ok with it.
Is it over the top? Yes. Should you turn it down? Also yes. I haven't come across a lot of Lore on Ceruleum other than it crystallizes in response to aether and is pretty much just Petrol, so I'm not the person to talk to for Lore Holes. Regardless, I'm one of the people that prefers the "you could, but sometimes you shouldn't" line of thinking. As exemplified by the previous posts, although a thaumaturge could technically call down fireballs of death from the sky, actually doing it is somewhat ridiculous and frowned upon. You don't need a super crazy power to tell a tale of internal struggle.
To address the idea of other people having more over the top powers, I would say that thinking along the "everyone's doing it!" path just leads to a world where everyone is a god and (according to my personal viewpoint) everything is awful.
Yes, there's always the "it's your RP, do what you want" camp, and the very nature of that thought makes it unassailable without seeming like a huge elitist or jerk or whatever else. But I feel it needs reminding that RP is a collaborative activity. You can do whatever you want, but there are other people sharing the space, too. If you're throwing your power around, even if it's only against NPCs, you could be affecting others in a way that they don't want to be effected.
If you search you'll still find it. It's called "Mako Energy and the Lifestream" and it was me just making sure that the lore basically was FF7 revamped. Aether is basically the Lifestream, Ceruleum other than the fact it explodes if it outright meets aether is basically Mako Energy. Gaius is a wanna be Sephiroth dropping stuff on the planet and everyone has aether sickness like a weak Geostigma.Â
I personally don't see anything too far from lore with it honestly. It's not to the point its comparable to a THM dropping comets on the ground. If anything it's actually just a modification of how one would use their own aspect aether in battle.
It's not me doing the "everyone is doing it logic" just moreso me comparing how far my idea is from others. Cause to be frank, nothing in lore says anything against using element aether or modifying it to different stages. Use glass cannon tails of ice seems a lot more reasonable than a THM pulling a comet out the sky or a fire user pulling a Ifrit scale fire attack.
And the PvE would be with very specific people. Not me just jumping into some rp with people getting attacked and forcefully putting it in theirs. Lol that'd be dumb of me.
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